News

Interesting Engineering1d
When quarks misbehave, symmetry breaks down and changes the rules of physics
Symmetry has been considered an unshakable property in physics, but strange quark behavior caused it to fail in a scientific ...
Interesting Engineering1d
Europe’s firm to use nuclear waste to generate 100 MW power for 250,000 households
The company has announced plans to construct a small modular molten salt reactor (MSR) that will utilize existing stockpiles of spent nuclear fuel, mixed with thorium, to produce 100 megawatts of ...
Theoretical framework refines understanding of the strong nuclear force
A new study published in Physical Review D titled, "Extending the Bridge Connecting Chiral Lagrangians and QCD Gaussian ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN3d
Nuclear scientists discover new isotopes that cause fission to turn asymmetric
An international collaboration of scientists working with the FAIR Phase 0 program at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN4d
This Giant Atom Smasher Turned Lead Into Gold—And Disintegrated It in a Flash!
The world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, has accomplished something ...
Space.com5d
Modern-day alchemy! Scientists turn lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider
There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed ...
Scientists Have Created Gold From Lead In The CERN Large Hadron Collider
In the LHC, the world's largest collider, scientists accelerated lead nuclei to 99.999993% the speed of light, sending them ...