She laid much of the theoretical groundwork for the atomic bomb, although she did not participate directly in its production. By Special to The New York Times This obituary was originally published on ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and ...

In the air people breathe, the water on Earth, the stars in the sky and more, atoms are the building blocks that make up the ...

A Transformative Decision In 1928, shortly after arriving at Cambridge to pursue mechanical engineering, a young man from ...

All around us are elements forged in stars, from the nickel and copper in coins to the gold and silver in jewelry. Scientists have a good understanding of how these elements form: In many cases, a ...

Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become the most precise clock on ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory recently partnered with OpenAI to install its flagship ChatGPT AI model on the supercomputers ...

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...