Nuclear isomers are crucial probes for studying the structure of nuclei. Unlike chemical isomers—which have the same chemical ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder.

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new way to ...

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to ...

Today marks 15 years since the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan. Some parts of the surrounding area are still recovering.

Explore the double standards in the global nuclear regime, highlighting conflicts and shifting strategies of Iran, Israel, ...

Scientists are exploring a new type of optical atomic clock based on ytterbium-173 ions that could help define the future ...

This regulation didn't make anyone safer but it did make it harder to build nuclear energy projects in the United States.

Virtual apertures let researchers isolate and solve atomic structures from individual nanocrystals embedded in dense clusters ...

North Korea is a pathologically distorted structure in which every system is subordinated entirely to the life and death of a ...

When you think of glass, you probably picture something fragile and brittle, not a material built for high-stress electromechanical components. However, researchers at Germany's Saarland University ...