A simulation of a rapidly accreting white dwarf showing a proposed site for the intermediate (i) process and the Summing NaI (SuN) detector. The research studied the 139Ba+n reaction, constrained by ...

Proton beams are not only used in sophisticated nuclear physics experiments. Today, they are becoming increasingly popular in radiotherapy, where they are an irreplaceable tool for destroying cancer ...

On an October morning in 2023, a chemical explosion detonated in a tunnel under the Nevada desert was the launch of the next set of experiments by the National Nuclear Security Administration, with ...

The magnet, which is 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide, will be used in the under-construction Beam Lifetime 3 experiment, a ...

Dark matter particles could be mediators of the interaction between electrons and atomic nuclei, as shown by a study ...

A vast complex of steel beams for a next-generation neutrino detector has begun its descent underground in what officials ...

The U.S. and China lead global efforts to make nuclear fusion commercially viable, with billion-dollar projects aiming for net-positive energy. Los Alamos scientists successfully recreated a 1938 ...