Scientists shined a little light, literally, on the perplexing processes that govern atoms, in a new experiment that showed the effect of bouncing one photon of light off an atom. Atoms and particles ...

The hybrid magnet at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory generates the world’s strongest continuous magnetic field at ...

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In October, the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) kicked off a ceremony to repurpose the iconic Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) containment structure at Idaho National Laboratory (INL ...

Two decades after the Chernobyl accident, Tony Goddard believes that nuclear power must continue to be used to generate electricity Exactly 20 years ago this month, on 21 April 1986, workers at the ...

Last week, inside a gold-plated drum in a Northern California lab, a group of scientists briefly recreated the physics that power the sun. Their late-night experiment involved firing 192 lasers into ...

According to a recent press release, a team of scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) developed a new way of nuclear fusion, which can put fusion power in a faster lane. Nuclear fusion ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Natron Energy, the world leader in sodium-ion batteries using Prussian Blue chemistry has successfully deployed their innovative BlueTray4000™ battery with Forced ...

It’s a long-running joke in the physicsworld.com newsroom that physicists see power laws everywhere. Indeed, a quick scan of the arXiv preprint server reveals physics papers that apply power-law ...

In physics, power is the rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed. The unit of power is the joule per second (J/s), known as the watt (in honor of James Watt, the eighteenth-century ...