An international collaboration of scientists working with the FAIR Phase 0 program at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für ...

The discovery of nuclear fission in the 1930s brought with it first the threat of nuclear annihilation by nuclear weapons in the 1940s, followed by the promise of clean, plentiful power in the ...

This marks the discovery of a new "island of asymmetric fission" in the nuclear chart, characterized by a surprising dominance of light fission fragments of krypton (Z = 36). "Beyond mapping this ...

Rutherford’s discovery is now often described as ‘splitting the atom’ in popular accounts, but this should not be confused with the process of nuclear fission discovered later in the 1930s. Between ...

That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a dark piece of uranium ore ...

ultimately realizing that his results represented the splitting of the atom—nuclear fission—in accordance with Einstein's equation E = mc 2. Hahn claimed the discovery for himself and accepted ...

The dream of humanity to imitate the forces that created their habitat has been alive for at least as far back as the time ...

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

An international team of scientists has identified an unexpected region of heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes in the nuclear chart where nuclear fission is predominantly governed by an asymmetric mode.