In 2008 the Nuclear Science Division (NSD) of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory launched the Applied Nuclear Physics program, headed by NSD's Kai Vetter upon his ...

Nearly a half-million cancer patients are treated with radiation therapy every year in the United States. Now, technologies developed in partnership with the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ...

Scientists have enlisted powerful supercomputers to calculate a quantity known as the 'nucleon axial coupling' -- which is central to our understanding of a neutron's lifetime -- with an unprecedented ...

I am pleased to welcome all of you to our 8 th Scientific Forum, a venue that has become one of the highlights of our annual General Conference. 2005 has been declared the World Year of Physics, in ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Over Christmas vacation in 1938, physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch received puzzling scientific news in a ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Scientists at the University of Notre Dame and elsewhere have begun using a new $4 million nuclear accelerator to study the origin of elements and the chemical evolution of the ...

Quantum computing has crossed a line that classical machines cannot easily follow, pushing simulations of matter and forces ...

A study by an international partnership led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group challenges the long-held idea ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Meitner and Frisch were able to provide an ...

Paul Stevenson receives funding from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. He is a member of the Green Party. This year marks the 103rd anniversary of the birth of nuclear physics, when ...