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 ...

Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not ...

The nuclear reaction chain could quickly spread to Asia, where Japan, South Korea and Taiwan face similar worries about the reliability of their defense agreements with America.' This is all happening ...

The isolation of compounds featuring an actinide–actinide bond is challenging. Now a well-defined Th(III) dimer with a Th–Th two-centre one-electron (2c-1e) σ bond and a 2c-1e π bond is ...

NCIS continues crushing ratings in Season 22, with proud-dad Valderrama's reaction stealing the spotlight and lighting up social media. Fans can’t get enough of Valderrama’s energy as NCIS racks up ...