A local veteran is proving you’re never too old to achieve a dream. One of the few “Atomic Veterans” still alive today, Henry “Hank” Bolden survived one of the most shameful chapters in America’s ...

Helium-3 is the lighter cousin of ordinary helium, helium-4. Its atomic nucleus has two protons and two neutrons (hence the 4 after the abbreviation for the element); in helium-3, one of the neutrons ...

It is possible that in the large light of history, if indeed there is to be history, the atomic bomb will appear not very different than in the bright light of the first atomic explosion. Partly ...

The theory was developed by Neils Bohr's great-grandson. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The use of a special type of atom could ...

Precision spectroscopy of helium and related atomic systems continues to serve as a cornerstone of experimental and theoretical quantum physics, offering stringent tests of quantum electrodynamics and ...

In the divertor and near-wall region of magnetic confinement fusion plasma experiments processes involving neutral atoms, molecules and molecular ions are important. The primary plasma constituents ...

On that clear, sunny morning, 7-year-old Howard Kakita stood on the roof of his grandparents’ bathhouse excitedly watching the vapor trails of an approaching B-29. The date was August 6, 1945. The ...

Seventy-five years ago in summer 1945, the United States' plans for unleashing its atomic bombs went beyond Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Focusing his gaze on Japan, Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, head of the ...

The atomic bomb may save more lives than it ended. At the University of Chicago, where man’s first nuclear chain reaction simmered underneath a grandstand, the Institute of Radiobiology and Biophysics ...

Muonic helium-3: Twice as slimmed-down Helium-3 is the lighter cousin of ordinary helium, helium-4. Its atomic nucleus has two protons and two neutrons (hence the 4 after the abbreviation for the ...