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

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...

San Diego County Supervisors approved a proposal to seek national lab partnerships to tackle nuclear waste at San Onofre.

First observation of carbon-neutrino interactions opens new frontiers in nuclear and particle physics.More images available via the link in the Notes ...

INL is producing enriched molten chloride fuel salt at full scale for its Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment, scheduled to begin in the 2030s ...

Last year, a UCLA-led team accomplished something scientists have been trying to do for 50 years. They made radioactive thorium nuclei absorb and ...

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a proposal to pursue partnerships with national ...

Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

Thorsten Schumm is professor for Quantum Metrology at the TU Wien. His scientific career has led him to Berlin, Innsbruck ...