Physicists have finally done what once sounded like science fiction: they have read the X-ray “fingerprint” of a single atom, isolating the signal of one of nature’s smallest building blocks from the ...

A research team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is the first ever to observe a beta-delayed neutron emission ...

Trump doesn’t use numbers the way most of us do, as “things that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided,” as Columbia University statistician Andrew Gelman put it. Rather, he uses them as ...

The group of rare earth elements (REEs) comprises a total of 17 elements, all of which possess similar chemical properties. In addition to the two lightest elements, scandium and yttrium, the group ...

In order to scale quantum computers, more qubits must be added and interconnected. However, prior attempts to do this have ...

Retro home decor is no longer just about nostalgia, it is quietly turning into a serious asset class. From mid-century icons to atomic-age accents, certain pieces are posting striking price gains that ...

Tech startup Atomic Canyon used the Frontier supercomputer to train nuclear-specific AI models to radically speed up document search and analysis capabilities for nuclear reactors. The AI models are ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

Abstract: The information on the electron densities of bodies is important for the treatment planning of radiotherapy. In order to obtain the electron densities directly, we have developed dual-energy ...

Abstract: In this paper, the sample deformation caused by the probe-sample interaction during atomic force microscopy (AFM) contact mode (CM) imaging of live cells is analyzed and quantified. CM is ...