Proton beams are not only used in sophisticated nuclear physics experiments. Today, they are becoming increasingly popular in ...

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the ...

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An international research team of the A1 Collaboration at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI) of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has succeeded in determining the binding energy of the hypertriton ...

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the Earth, sea, air, and even in orbit. The physics of shock waves, sound, and ...

The 500 MW prototype fast-breeder reactor is located at Kalpakkam, about 70 km south of Chennai. (Courtesy: Department of Atomic Energy) India’s first prototype fast-breeder reactor (PFBR) has ...

A person in black gloves holds a small square object while a person in blue gloves pokes it with a pencil-shaped object. Staff at Project Omega handle part of a prototype betavoltaic battery. Credit: ...

Operation Midnight Hammer delivered GBU-57s against Fordow, setting Iran’s program back but not eliminating it. The article ...

Andhra University celebrates its centenary. The life of Swami Jnanananda is being remembered. He renounced ordinary life for ...

Paul Howarth, president of the Institute of Physics, says ‘constructive dialogue’ with the government is needed, or the country risks losing the next generation of scientists. It feels, at the moment, ...