For the first time, the state of an atomic nucleus was switched with a laser. For decades, physicists have been looking for such a nuclear transition -- now it has been found. This opens up a new ...

India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam reached criticality, advancing nuclear power. The PFBR uses plutonium fuel and produces more fissile material than it consumes. This milestone marks ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

Atomic bomb scientists : memoirs, 1939-1945 : interviews with Werner Karl Heisenberg, Paul Harteck, Lew Kowarski, Leslie R. Groves, Aristid von Grosse, C.E. Larson / conducted and edited by Joseph J.

These historic objects from the National Air and Space Museum's collection have been 3D scanned and 3D models produced in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Digitization Program Office.