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Retired Captain of First US Nuclear Submarine Celebrates Turning 100 in Spokane
Military.com· 4 days agoFrank Fogarty knew nothing about nuclear physics on ships when he got pulled from his Korean War...
Laser excitation of Th-229 nucleus: New findings suggest classical quantum physics and nuclear ...
Phys.org· 5 days agoThis makes it possible to combine two areas of physics that previously had little to do with each...
China Launches Mission to Return First Samples From Moon's Elusive Far Side
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoA Chinese probe is on its way to the far side of the Moon to collect samples and drop them off at...
New Theoretical Contribution Helps Examine the Internal Rotation of the Proton
Newswise· 1 day agoAn important question for scientists studying the inner structure of the proton is how quarks are distributed in a proton whose rotation is perpendicular to its direction of motion. Much of ...
The KDK Collaboration Identifies Rare Nuclear Decay in Long-Lived Potassium Isotope
Newswise· 1 day agoThis is especially true for potassium-40. This isotope usually decays to calcium-40, but about 10...
It’s Really Freaking Hard to Weigh a Neutrino. Scientists Are Finally About to Do It.
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe large team used an instrument called PENTATRAP at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics...
In a first, scientists precisely control thorium nuclei with lasers
Interesting Engineering· 5 days agoFor the first time, researchers have unlocked a very specific state of thorium atomic nuclei that...
The discovery of tennessine and the prospect of creating heavier elements
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 5 days ago“So, then Yuri contacted his friend Joe Hamilton, a distinguished professor of physics in the ...
Scientists Directly Measure a Key Reaction in Neutron Star Binaries
Newswise· 1 day agoAn X-ray burst (XRB) is a violent explosion that occurs on the surface of a neutron star as it...
Universities Space Research Association Elects Three Universities to the Association
WPRI Providence· 18 hours agoThree distinguished institutions—The University of Notre Dame, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and the University of Padua, Italy—recently joined the ranks of the prestigious Universities ...