A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

Researchers from the High Energy Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan and ...

Since the atomic nucleus was first proposed in 1911, physicists simply assumed it was round. But are the nuclei of atoms really round? Intuitively this shape makes sense and physicists believed it ...

Radioactive nuclear fallout can contaminate the food chain poisoning any produce it touches and the animals that eat it.cyano66 / Getty Images Fallout — radioactive material from a nuclear explosion — ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinout from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced plans on Tuesday to build the world's first grid-scale commercial nuclear fusion power plant in ...

Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog found uranium particles enriched up to nearly 84 percent in Iran's underground Fordow uranium enrichment site, International Atomic Energy Agency ...

Nuclear weapons are feared the world over due to their unparalleled destructive strength and their potential to sicken populations with radiation. These effects are known not just from thousands of ...

Chinese physicists are experimenting with disabling satellites in space to disrupt the communications and surveillance capabilities of other countries—namely, the United States. According to a recent ...