Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured from the public, even his family, as he advised presidents ...

Wikimedia Commons Just over 75 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi conducted a famous nuclear experiment beneath the University of Chicago’s football field on December 2, 1942. The experiment ...

Colliding beams of lead create fast-moving, short-lived gold ions. Understanding the process could help to refine ...

which allowed the influence of the different nuclear structures to be estimated. The theoretical physicists combined this information with the earlier measurement of the hydrogen-like ion of the ...