The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the ...

Neutrinos are very common fundamental particles included in the Standard Model of particle physics. Measuring their ...

After discussing the emergence of nuclear physics, Close goes on to talk about the Allies’ development of the nuclear bomb. A ...

In their search for dark matter, scientists from the XENON Collaboration are using one of the world's most sensitive dark ...

Fusion has the potential to solve the world's energy demand and climate goals, but questions remain about crossing the ...

On this day in Michigan history, October 7, 1965, Michigan State University’s new Cyclotron Laboratory accelerated its first beam of atomic particles.

Some atoms are stable, while others seem to fall apart. Lead-208 will probably last forever, while the synthetic isotope technetium-99 exists for just hours. The difference lies in the structure of ...

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

Rutherford's life and his work has been diligently chronicled in a new book by Kiwi author Matthew Wright called Ernest ...