The researchers tested simplified, subscale hohlraums — gold cavities that house the NIF target — which they iteratively made ...

For centuries, gold’s celestial origins remained one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries. Now, a ground-breaking study has ...

The gold you wear today may have landed on Earth billions of years ago... but that is far from the beginning of the metal’s ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

Now, researchers in the US and South Korea have used a neutron beam to differentiate between genuine antique coins and fakes.

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth discusses a process called r-process nucleosynthesis in a ...

Evidence from old NASA and ESA data suggests magnetar flares may have created heavy elements in the early universe.

First clinical application of accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy outside of Asia Ongoing clinical trial is enrolling patients with inoperable, locally recurrent ...

When an ordinary beam of neutrons strikes the team’s silicon grating, the millions of scored lines on the grating convert the ...