Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new ...

In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this ...

In the quest to generate limitless clean energy, China has just taken a step closer. Scientists have achieved the milestone ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators have ...

Exotic nuclei near and beyond the proton drip line exhibit a range of unique decay processes, including β-delayed proton ...

Heavy actinides—elements at the bottom of the periodic table, after plutonium—are radioactive, rare and chemically complex, ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

A collaboration of US-based researchers has turned to the PROSPECT-I detector at ORNL in search of the elusive sterile ...