Professor Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the University of British Columbia. His latest book is Nuclear is Not the Solution. I put some questions to him on ...

China’s EAST reactor has achieved a new milestone by sustaining plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds. This ...

China is on a clear course to become the world’s first “electrostate" — and is likely to eclipse the U.S. in atomic power in ...

Chinese scientists have deployed prototype detectors in the South China Sea to explore building a large underwater observatory to detect neutrinos, tiny particles from space.

The odd superconductivity found in layered graphene may bring us closer to understanding room-temperature superconductors ...

Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer More than 100 third through eighth grade Pocahontas County students converged on the Green Bank Observatory January 28 for the annual county Science and Engineering Fair.

Researchers at Oxford University have used an innovative approach to overcome the scalability problem of quantum computing, ...

Texas A&M University System has unveiled four nuclear developers with which it plans to explore building and operating small ...

Researchers try to decode the quantum mechanics of chlorophyll, Nature’s near-perfect light harvester, to harness solar ...

Superconductors can carry electricity without losing energy, a superpower that makes them invaluable for a range of ...

In a twist that sounds like it belongs in a science fiction novel, researchers have recently uncovered exotic quasi-particles ...