The major hurdles China faced when making its first atomic bomb included the weapon design, neutron sources, the detonation wave focusing system, “cold” (or subcritical) tests, and uranium metal ...

not less than any bomb.” In February 2023, two of his aides were arrested with six illegal weapons allegedly smuggled from Madhya Pradesh on Neutron’s directions while he was lodged in Nabha jail.

Everyone has seen the iridescent rainbow patterns in an oil sheen on water.  Oil is hydrophobic, which repels water and doesn’t mix.  It spreads out across the surface of the water, and if ...

A US-based research team has used neutron scattering to study lithium movement in a promising solid-state battery material.

Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

Glide bombs are among Russia's most powerful and destructive weapons. Now Ukraine is learning how to shoot them down, a new ...

Additionally, astronomers speculated on neutron star land forms, paleontologists reported a previously unknown Cretaceous-era predator and a tech start-up is building a living seawall in Florida ...

It seems therefore possible that the uranium nucleus has only small stability of form, and may, after neutron capture, divide itself into two nuclei of roughly equal size (the precise ratio of ...

Only Donald Trump can make the call to launch U.S. nuclear-armed ICBMs. Our reporter visits the subterranean world of the ...

Australian scientists have discovered a collapsed star called a neutron star that spins thousands of times slower than expected. The star, called ASKAP J1839-075, is one of a number of recent ...