When the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) opened its doors 60 years ago, the world was undergoing a profound ...

Community members and friends alike remain stunned days after Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a nuclear physicist, was shot and killed at his home in Brookline, ...

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The ore was recovered in the early 1970s and completely stumped scientists, until they realized it was evidence of something ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — From a couch on the back deck of a dockside restaurant, the Beatles playing in the background and a breeze blowing off the water, Joe Cunningham gestured to Shem Creek. “This ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By electroplating thorium onto steel, they achieved the same results as years ...

Even though the strange behaviour we observe in the quantum realm isn’t part of our daily lives, simulations suggest it is likely our reality could be one of the many worlds in a quantum multiverse ...

The following is a summary of a story that originally appeared on the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences website .When the ...