We live in a world transformed by our ability to manipulate the nucleus of atoms. Nuclear power plants provide abundant energy without polluting the air, yet on the other hand thousands of nuclear ...

Voltage fade has quietly limited some of the most promising lithium-ion cathodes, eroding the energy they can deliver long ...

Lascaux Caves, France The Lascaux Cave is a treasure trove for archaeologists around the globe. The cave complex contains pre ...

In June, 2014, a man began digging into the soft red earth in the back yard of his house, on the outskirts of Kolwezi, a city in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the man later told ...

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency still intends to purchase cobalt for the National Defense Stockpile but is reassessing its strategy and has no target date for reissuing the ...

Cobalt is a byproduct of nickel and copper mining. In recent years, cobalt has taken its place as one of the world’s most sought-after commodities due to its use in semiconductor chips and the lithium ...

A shiny gray crystal called platinum-bismuth-two hides an electronic world unlike anything scientists have seen before.

The 1945 Trinity test produced heat 10,000 times greater than the surface of the sun and spread fallout across the country. Tina Cordova and her mother, Rosalie, relax at Bonito Lake, New Mexico, in ...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM), a form of scanning probe microscopy, is a technique where a cantilever with a sharp tip is systematically scanned across a sample (biological or material) surface to ...

The IAEA Milestones Approach enables a sound development process for a nuclear power programme. It is a phased comprehensive method to assist countries that are considering or planning their first ...

In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained nuclear reaction ...