Neutrinos and antineutrinos are elementary particles with small but unknown mass. High-precision atomic mass measurements at ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has embarked on an innovative project to develop a small nuclear battery that converts ...

In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this ...

Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new ...

Exotic nuclei near and beyond the proton drip line exhibit a range of unique decay processes, including β-delayed proton ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has momentarily transformed lead into gold, the long-sought-after goal of medieval ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

Normally, any free neutrons decay in roughly 15 minutes ... matter takes on perhaps its strangest form yet: the "nuclear ...

However, the JAEA recently found a use for americium’s ability to continually produce heat through its nuclear decay process. The JAEA is now moving to combine americium with power generation ...

This nuclear isomer (metastable) state is a big part of radioactive decay chains, but can also be induced externally. The trick lies in hitting the right excitation wavelength and being able to ...