Researchers were unsure whether alpha particles would aid or hinder fusion. Simulations suggest they help, by dampening ...
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Ghost particles could reveal secret production of bomb-making material in fusion reactors
One of fusion energy’s biggest selling points is that it is supposed to be ...
Atomic clocks leveraged the atom to keep time, but new innovations will use the nucleus itself.
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The world's first nuclear clocks are ticking, opening a new way to investigate dark matter and other mysteries of physics
For decades, scientists have tried to build a device even more precise than an atomic clock, which keeps time using electrons ...
Scientists studying the tracks of particles streaming from six billion collisions of atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—an "atom smasher" that recreates the conditions of the ...
Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) usually capture what happens when ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in the universe. A team from NTNU suggests that colossal winds from ...
Scientists are using atomic clocks to investigate some of the universe's greatest mysteries, including the nature of dark matter, in a laboratory. In the process, they say they're bringing cosmology ...
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