Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atomic bombs work via a process called nuclear fission that involves atom splitting. Shortly after scientists discovered nuclear ...

The word atom comes from Greek for indivisible. But don't let the name fool you. A simulation by US theoretical physicists has provided the first fully microscopic characterization of the moment an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Jul 16, 2025, 10:38am EDT Jul 16, 2025, 12:02pm EDT The mushroom ...

This episode was produced in collaboration with and sponsored by Emerson. When scientists first split the atom, they didn’t realize what they’d done until physicist Lise Meitner figured out they had ...

A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in one of its two new reactors, Georgia Power said Monday, a key step toward reaching commercial operation at the first new nuclear reactors ...

This is a glowing review for a play about plutonium. For three hours in Michael Frayn’s fact-based Copenhagen, nearly perfect in the impressive production at Theatre Three, two brilliant World War ...

The nation's top regulatory body for nuclear power plants and other nuclear materials, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has officially voted to regulate nuclear fusion differently than fission. The ...

There is a memorable scene in “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster film about the building of the atomic bomb, in which Luis Alvarez, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, is reading a ...