IN connexion with the remarkable selectivity of nuclear photo-effects of heavy elements indicated by experiments, it was pointed out in a recent note in NATURE 1 that such photo-effects might provide ...

Could this C-130J Super Hercules help detect nuclear particles? It's more likely than you think. (Staff Sgt. Dana J. Cable/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — When the Air Force dispatches aircraft to the ...

At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...

Radiation is energy that moves from one place to another in a form that can be described as waves or particles. We are exposed to radiation in our everyday life. Some of the most familiar sources of ...

In a YouTube video, WIRED interviewed Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in order to find out more about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a ...