Nuclear Physics

These small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than traditional nuclear power plants.

National Security Archive | JFK was worried about Israel's secret nuclear program, but Tel Aviv still moved forward regardless.

This 'deceptively simple' question demands a dip into the murky waters of quantum physics.

The web's inventor says companies worked together decades ago to create an open internet. That isn't happening with generative AI.

They're unbound, free-flying objects.

It's the Bond movies' most shocking plot twist in decades. But will the tech giant's surprise buyout of the franchise prove deadly? Or could it breathe new life into cinema's most famous spy?

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang

Zoe Fisher, a doctoral student in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT, is studying how defects in ceramics form during radiation damage, toward designing a more practical ceramic that can insulate the inside of fusion power plants.

In a surprising turn of events, an international team of scientists has found that lead-208 (208Pb), the heaviest known "doubly magic" nucleus, exhibits unexpected shape characteristics that current nuclear models fail to predict accurately.

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer tops the list of our picks for the five Oscar-winning movies to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

An early-career physicist mathematically connects timelike and spacelike form factors, opening the door to further insights into the inner workings of the strong force. A new lattice QCD calculation connects two seemingly disparate reactions involving the pion, the lightest particle governed by the strong interaction.

Google, Microsoft and Amazon are among the technology companies looking to nuclear power to produce energy with a smaller carbon footprint. Environmental organizations remain skeptical.

Astronomers using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a state-of-the-art instrument mounted on NSF's Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, have mapped how nearly 6 million galaxies cluster across 11 billion years of cosmic history.

MIT Washington Summer Internship Program founder Professor Charles Stewart joins MIT Vice Provost Philip Khoury and alumni of the program in reflecting on three decades of impact.

Bridging Talents and Opportunities (BTO) held its second annual forum at the MIT Stratton Center. The two-day event gathered over 500 participants, including high school students and their families, undergraduate students, professors, and leaders across STEAM fields.

Researchers have introduced a model based on the Langevin equation that offers new insights into the formation of exotic nuclei. This development could enhance the ability to produce rare isotopes that are valuable for various applications in science and medicine.

Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks of the atom's nucleus—particles called hadrons that a high school student would recognize as protons and neutrons—are made up of a seething mixture of interacting quarks and gluons, known collectively as partons.

Scientists at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed an innovative method to realize gravitational wave detection by utilizing Mössbauer resonance. Their findings, recently published in Science Bulletin, highlight a new approach that could revolutionize the study of gravitational waves.

A new class of partially disordered rock salt cathode is a potential breakthrough for lithium-ion batteries and a key to creating low-cost, high-energy storage.

An MIT-led group has learned how to achieve precise control over the properties of Weyl semimetals and other exotic substances. The technique can be used any inorganic bulk material and for thin films.