Every now and then, tiny particles of antimatter strike Earth from cosmic parts unknown. A new balloon-borne experiment ...

For the first time, researchers employ a laser to raise an atomic nucleus's energy state, then precisely track its return to ...

Although most people are probably familiar with the different energy levels that the electron shells of atoms can be in and how electrons shedding excess energy as they return to a lower state ...

For the first time, lasers have successfully excited the "thorium transition," a process long pursued by researchers. This ...

Though we cannot see it, we live in a quantized world where the light that illuminates our days is made up of tiny packets of ...

Some nuclei of certain elements decay radioactively into nuclei of different elements. These decays can be useful or annoying ...

For the first time, the state of an atomic nucleus was switched with a laser. For decades, physicists have been looking for such a nuclear transition -- now it has been found. This opens up a new ...

For many years, scientists all around the world have been searching for a very specific state of thorium atomic nuclei that ...

Spurred on by major technological advances and huge private investment, the United States' nuclear fusion sector could be producing electricity within ten years, industry players say.

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, and the Institute of Biomedicine in Seville (IBiS) in Spain led the research, which is ...

If these "magnetized" protons, neutrons, or electron can be cleverly brought into "resonance", the result is "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance" if the nuclei composed of protons and neutrons are brought ...

A new FireStar Fusion Drive has been successfully tested designed specifically for space exploration. Its latest iteration ...