It was an anomaly detected in the storm of a nuclear reactor so puzzling that physicists hoped it would shine a light on dark matter, one of the universe's greatest mysteries. However new research has ...

If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes up hundreds of acres of land, soon there will be an alternative: tiny nuclear ...

A nuclear fusion experiment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has set a record for the strongest steady magnetic field confining a plasma, ushering in new hope that forthcoming demonstration ...

The race to build ever larger artificial intelligence models is colliding with a hard physical limit: electricity. As data centers multiply and power-hungry chips proliferate, Big Tech is turning to ...

When a star dies, it generates an explosion of elemental nuclei and hurls them into space. Those elements, called cosmic rays ...

A new experiment conducted at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) assessed the ability of U.S. nuclear weapons to survive encounters with adversary missile defenses and reach their targets. The ...

A simulation of a rapidly accreting white dwarf showing a proposed site for the intermediate (i) process and the Summing NaI (SuN) detector. The research studied the 139Ba+n reaction, constrained by ...

Inside these walls, scientists have been trying for decades to create an unlimited source of energy, nuclear fusion. Welcome to JET, the world's biggest nuclear fusion experiment. Scientists argue ...