During Cold War-era plutonium production at what is now the Department of Energy's Hanford Site in Washington State, aluminum was used extensively as fuel cladding material. The waste products ...

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME) are two of the most energetic processes in the solar system, showering the Earth's magnetic field with billions of tons of highly energetic plasma gas, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Super-hot atoms in space hold the key to an astronomical mystery, and an Ohio State University astronomer is leading an effort to study those atoms here on Earth. Anil Pradhan and his ...

Physicists directly observed ultracold atoms in an 'edge state,' flowing along a boundary without resistance. The research could help physicists manipulate electrons to flow without friction in ...

Would it surprise you to learn that a part of you has been to outer space? You may wonder how that can be possible since you've most likely never traveled beyond our planet. US and Canada-based ...

Scientists filmed a pair of rhenium atoms (simulated here in green) as they bonded over a carbon nanotube (grey) Courtesy of the University of Nottingham Scientists have captured video of a pair of ...

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Until now, atoms have never been imaged interacting freely in space, but a new technique known as non-resolved microscopy has changed that. MIT physicists were able to successfully capture images of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Understanding how atoms form is a fundamental and important question, since they make up everything with mass. The question of ...

It was our planet, immediately before humans – instantly recognisable, but only just. During the Middle Miocene, around 17 million to 15 million years ago, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were ...