Lasers, heat and a notoriously tricky element are at the center of a quiet revolution in how the United States plans to power ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are breathing new life into the scientific ...

In a recent paper published in The European Physical Journal D, researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, have demonstrated a method for more precise ionization measurements of ...

This week's element is neptunium, which has the atomic symbol Np and atomic number 93. Neptunium was named for the planet Neptune, the next planet away from the sun after Uranus (which was uranium's ...

The burgeoning periodic table will see four more isotopes being added to its fag end. H. M. Devaraja from the Manipal Centre of Natural Sciences at Manipal University, Karnataka — who was a part of an ...

The Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council and nuclear innovation company Nuclear Promise X will explore the feasibility of using Canadian nuclear reactors to produce plutonium-238 for use in deep space ...

Scientists first created the artificial element neptunium in 1940, around the time they made the first atoms of plutonium. But because plutonium turned out to be so much better for nuclear weapons, ...