University of Tennessee, Knoxville physicists and their colleagues have made critical measurements of the lifetime and decay energy of tellurium-104 (Te-104), an important step in answering a ...

Ganymede has long looked like a contradiction in orbit. Jupiter’s largest moon is the only moon known to generate its own ...

For decades, a Tibet seismic mystery pointed to missing rock beneath the plateau. A new study finds heated crust may explain ...

Two Oak Ridge engineers proposed a new nuclear device to power future NASA missions to Neptune and its moon Triton.

Modern cosmology often presents itself as the most triumphant extension of physics. It has traced the history of the universe from fractions of a second after the Big Bang to the formation of galaxies ...

There is so much information about the world and life itself out there that it’s almost unfathomable. And every now and then, ...

Some level of the odourless, colourless radioactive gas is in every home — but long-term overexposure is considered a Class 1 ...

One reason to test ever larger Schrödinger’s kittens is they might show us that quantum mechanics itself breaks down before ...

The UK's Low Level Waste Repository is nearing its 70th birthday and is probably the world's oldest operating facility of its kind. During that time things have changed from a "tip and tumble" typical ...

Zoey Hu, Dahyeon Lee and Ben Lewis, who are holding replicas of an optical laser cavity. (Courtesy: R Jacobson/NIST) There are craters on the Moon where the Sun never shines – and researchers in the ...

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...

When you're talking about radiation, it's not unreasonable to immediately jump to man-made, weaponized radiation and the horrible effects it can have on human life. However, radiation itself is a ...