Feb. 3, 2026: A U.S. Navy fighter jet shoots down an Iranian drone approaching the Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. Iranian fast-attack boats attempt to stop a U.S.-flagged ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
Traditional chemistry textbooks present a tidy picture: Atoms in molecules occupy fixed positions, connected by rigid rods. A ...
Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks -- the tiny particles within -- respond when hit by high-energy photons. The international team ...
In A Nutshell Counties located closer to nuclear power plants in the U.S. had higher cancer death rates, according to a Harvard analysis of nearly two decades of national data. The association was ...
The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...
The Working Party on Atomic Questions handles issues related to nuclear safety, radioactive waste, spent fuels, ionising radiation and the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The working party is composed ...
MIT Physicists Just Found a Way to See Inside Atoms Oct. 26, 2025 MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle ...