Looming behind Regenstein Library is a bronze, mushroom cloud–shaped sculpture—Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy. Installed in 1967, it now seems like an inconspicuous part of the campus landscape. In ...

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Reinhard Dörner explains: "In the quantum world, atomic nuclei are not tiny spheres that remain fixed in place. They are more like vibrating clouds. Even if we cool a molecule down to absolute zero, ...

Formic acid is considered a molecule in which all atoms lie in a single plane. A research team at Goethe University, together with cooperation ...

Insights from theoretical physics are helping scientists understand how living cells process information and use it to self-organise Researchers ...

Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after ...

Nancy Shute discusses how our reporters find unique stories, from vaccine beer to a particle collider’s retirement to the rise of AI scientists.

Study led by University of Bonn finds galaxy clusters contain about twice as much normal matter as previously estimated, based on recalculated stellar populations and survey data.

Many of us smelled a rat when “invitations” were sent out to residents of the area around the decommissioned and dismantled ...

HOUSTON, TX -A seven-year-old girl in Lucknow stood in her backyard at dawn in October 1957, watching Sputnik streak across the sky. Nearly seven decades later, that child would help steer some of ...

First of two parts ACCORDING to a report by the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Monday, the Philippines has just signed three new memoranda of understanding (MOU) with the United States on nuclear ...

Nuclear energy is now championed by liberal Democrats and environmentalists, who led anti-nuclear protests and rallies across the United States 50 years ago. The carbon-free power source was long ...