The Tennessee Valley Authority, which is a major utility serving more than 10 million people in the Southeast, is facing criticism. Utility hit with backlash after troubling data emerges about its ...

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

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

The Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics conducts cutting-edge research in the field of nuclear, particle, and astroparticle ...

R. Rajaraman, a distinguished Indian theoretical physicist, prominent nuclear weapon policy scholar and advocate for nuclear disarmament, and longtime collaborator with Princeton’s Program on Science ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by ...

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

Small-scale nuclear reactors are a promising power source. But implementing them will require overcoming technical and societal challenges.