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A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 ...
Enjoy the conclusion of this two-part series regarding the history of German atomic weapons. *** Spring 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the end of the World War II German nuclear weapons program.
Germany's Wendelstein 7-X stellarator has set a new benchmark for fusion reactors, bringing commercial, near-limitless clean ...
Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A ...
This was not (as one of the many myths associated with the German nuclear weapons effort had it) because of a mistake the physicist Walther Bothe made when he measured the neutron absorption of ...
Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...
Germany's leadership is increasingly divided over nuclear energy, marking a significant shift from its historic anti-nuclear ...
Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...
A German startup has published plans for a commercial nuclear-fusion plant, in what scientists are touting as an important breakthrough in making the energy that fuels stars a viable source of ...