A breakthrough in timekeeping: Progress toward a nuclear clock
Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN12h
Chemistry riddle: Lasers probe nuclear structure of elements to test periodic table’s limit
A team of scientists set out to probe some of the heaviest elements in the periodic table using an advanced form of laser ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists15h
Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner
This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...
New design for photonic time crystals could change how we use and control light
An international research team has for the first time designed realistic photonic time crystals––exotic materials that ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists15h
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte
The former dean of MIT's plasma fusion dept—which is intimately tied to the privately funded Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ...
The Cool Down on MSN23h
American facility to house one of the world's most powerful lasers to aid in effort to achieve limitless energy: 'Could redefine global energy solutions'
Its research will include using a unique cluster of high-intensity, high-repetition lasers focused on a single target aiming ...