Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Rosatom’s Breakthrough Project nears completion of the world’s first industrial closed fuel cycle for fast neutron reactors ...

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...

The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

Axions are hypothetical light particles that could solve two different physics problems, as they could explain why some ...

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

Small Modular Reactors are pivoting the nuclear industry from custom-built energy cathedrals to factory-built energy ...

Neutron stars explained through stellar remnants and collapsed stars, revealing extreme density, gravity, magnetism, and ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible ...

Scientists at Ames National Laboratory, in collaboration with Indranil Das's group at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (India), have found a surprising electronic feature in transitional ...

During the Cold War, two physicists became public "opponents" of the Pentagon's antiballistic missile systems. But they kept ...