Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A ...

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A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...

As the subtitle suggests, it covers key British experiences of how the media handled GM food (“Frankenfoods”), use of animals ...

Let us, then, dismantle the myth of the self-made man, not to devalue individual effort, but to tell the whole truth.

Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

Cecilia Payne deduced that the sun is mainly made of hydrogen - but was encouraged to downplay her findings by her PhD supervisor. Mike Sutton takes up the story ...

Anastasia Fialkov is a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Eloy de Lera Acedo is an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the ...

FAMOUS FOREBEAR: Professor Mary Fowler with a copy of her great-grandfather Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize certificate, which she has donated to Nelson College, his old school.MARION VAN ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe's development, known as the Cosmic Dawn.