Langevin 4D Model Improves How We Predict Low-Energy Fission
For all of us working with electricity, radioactive waste containment, or hospitals, controlling radioactive processes and predicting their behaviors are key to making our world…
For all of us working with electricity, radioactive waste containment, or hospitals, controlling radioactive processes and predicting their behaviors are key to making our world…
Plasmas, gas-like collections of ions and electrons, make up an estimated 99 percent of the visible matter in the universe, including the sun, the stars,…
A newly published study details how defects in metal oxides may be key to their performance for a variety of high-tech applications. Sometimes things that…
Using a mechanical trick, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg have found a way to narrow the spectrum of the…
OLYMPUS experiment sheds light on structure of protons, revealing that two photons, not one, are exchanged in electron-proton interactions. A mystery concerning the structure of…
MIT’s Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor set a new world record, achieving over 2 atmospheres of pressure for the first time. On Friday, September…
Physicists from MIT are proposing a new experiment to detect a dark matter particle called the axion. If successful, the effort could crack one of…
Engineers from MIT propose that a new lithium-oxygen battery material could be packaged in batteries that are very similar to conventional sealed batteries yet provide…
New research from MIT shows two types of turbulence within plasma that cause significant heat loss. Solving this problem could take the world a step…
Using a new method based on electrochemical principles, engineers at MIT have developed a new device that could provide electrical power source from walking and…
The Zero Knowledge Warhead Verification Program aims to identify nuclear weapons while protecting secret information. “Energy is incredibly fundamental to life,” MIT graduate student Ruaridh…
The most precise experiments ever to compare the mass of the proton and antiproton reveal no difference between the particles, determining that the masses of…
Advances in magnet technology have enabled MIT scientists to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor. It’s an old joke that…
A team of researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration rediscovered the scuttled U.S.S. Independence, determining the radiation risk of exploring the underwater aircraft…
Since nuclear power plants emit no carbon dioxide, they are considered an important component for a greener energy future. A new nuclear power plant promises…
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics conducted initial experiments in the Cryogenic Storage Ring. The Cryogenic Storage Ring can reproduce the chemical…
MIT researchers detail how a floating nuclear power plant design could provide enhanced safety – it would be unaffected by the motions of a tsunami…
Using attosecond-timed laser flashes, a team of physicists has become the first to image and control the motion of the two electrons in a helium…