Scientists have succeeded in unraveling the mystery of the ‘electron tunneling’ process for the first time. The feat, a core concept in quantum mechanics, was achieved by researchers from Pohang ...

Fusion’s demand for tritium is tiny in volume terms, but tritium is the key ingredient to turn fusion reactor designs into reality. Where will it come from?

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Werner Heisenberg's breakthrough, aged 23, that led to Nobel Prize judges celebrating him as the creator of quantum mechanics ...

Scientists have analyzed data gathered from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to advance our understanding of why anything exists. That existential statement is necessary because scientists think that the ...

Professor Dong Eon Kim from POSTECH's Department of Physics and Max Planck Korea-POSTECH Initiative and his research team have succeeded in ...

Project Solis. The work: nuclear fusion testing. The cost: $1 billion. The site: Albuquerque? For the past few months, local and state officials have discreetly been talking with Pacific Fusion, a ...

At incredibly small scales, the universe operates according to the unfamiliar rules of quantum mechanics. And Planck’s ...

Physicists have discovered that silicon-22 reveals a new proton magic number offering critical insights into nuclear ...

POSTECH, MPK, and Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have revealed the hidden dynamics of electrons during quantum ...

Researchers have just created a new super-heavy isotope of seaborgium, called seaborgium-257. This type of unstable atom does not exist naturally on Earth. Seaborgium-257 lasts for ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

Scientists believe that if a nuclear clock is developed – one that uses the atomic nucleus to measure time with extreme precision – even the tiniest irregularities in its ticking could reveal dark ...