Nuclear power is rising to meet the demand for American energy. But building new reactors or even renewing licenses of ...

Atomic nuclei are often described as orderly systems. Certain numbers of protons or neutrons, called magic numbers, usually ...

Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter.

When a massive star dies, astronomers expect a familiar chemical script: hydrogen and helium on the outside, heavier elements ...

As minister of environment and climate change under the former Trudeau government, climate catastrophist-in-chief Steven ...

UT researchers have made rare measurements of exotic nuclear decay that reshape how scientists think heavy elements form in extreme cosmic events. You can’t have gold without the decay of an atomic ...

Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. It includes an excerpt from the Salt Lake ...

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

The power line named Dneprovskaya, supplying electricity to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant controlled by Russian forces in Ukraine, was deactivated. This action followed the activation of ...