A new design for a nuclear battery that generates electricity from the radioactive decay of americium is unprecedentedly ...

Researchers have created a nuclear battery with unprecedented efficiency: 8,000 times more efficient. The battery developed ...

A recent breakthrough has paved the way for timekeeping even more precise than the measurements performed by atomic clocks.

When you picture a sci-fi energy source, glowing green crystals are right up there. Scientists in China have now demonstrated ...

Yale researchers are analyzing lead ingots discovered in the mid-1990s from the wreck of a Roman Late Republican Vessel a few ...

New research reveals unique two-proton decay in 18Mg, impacting nuclear physics theories and applications. A team of ...

Cold War bilateral nuclear order has made escalation in the Ukraine war a risky prospect. Ukraine has been lobbying hard for ...

Scientists use atomic clocks to measure the "second," the smallest standard unit of time, with great precision. These clocks ...

The low-energy excited state of thorium-229 (229Th) isotope nucleus has recently gained much attention owing to it being an ideal candidate for ultra-precise nuclear clocks. Building such ...

Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks ...

In 2023, scientists pioneered a method of embedding thorium-229 into crystals; this solid state system suppressed signals from nuclear decay, making desired signals easier to track. Earlier this ...