On March 8, 2026, a rumor that two members of U.S. President Donald Trump's Cabinet had commissioned nuclear bomb shelters appeared on social media. Snopes readers wrote in asking for more information ...

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

Physicists working with molybdenum-84, a nucleus containing exactly 42 protons and 42 neutrons, have found that this seemingly balanced atom defies one of nuclear physics’ longest-standing ...

The fate of the highly enriched uranium and the options for securing it have become critical issues for the Trump ...

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

She laid much of the theoretical groundwork for the atomic bomb, although she did not participate directly in its production.

About 13.8 billion years ago, the origin of the universe began with the Big Bang. Scientists say all space, time, matter, and ...

More than 200 metabolic enzymes, many of which are normally tasked with producing energy in the mitochondria, are also found ...

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming ...

Maria Goeppert Mayer is remembered as one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. She was born in Germany ...

Over 85 years after it began, the Einstein-Bohr debate remains the most consequential intellectual rivalry in modern science ...

The original story “ Physicists build a quantum Newton’s cradle where energy flows without resistance ” is published in The ...