Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

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

A five-dimensional model has successfully predicted the asymmetric fission of mercury isotopes, offering new insights into ...

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Far more dangerous than U-235 are the elemental products given off when nuclear fuel goes through fission—especially iodine, ...