A few days before the Christmas of 1898, Pierre Curie scrawled the word 'radium' in his notebook as the name for a new element he and his wife Marie had brought laboriously to light in their ...

Niels Bohr's Nobel Lecture on December 11, 1922, titled The Structure of the Atom, is one of the most significant contributions to our understanding of atomic structure and quantum mechanics.

Along with elucidating concepts from atomic physics, the art also supported the broader claim made by Ruchlis ... Sendak illustrates radioactive half-life by using radium. He shows the element’s atoms ...

a waste management specialist in the Greek Atomic Energy Commission. Looking ahead, the IAEA will continue to help countries consolidate and characterize their disused radium-226 sources in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A further build-up of US nuclear capabilities would have little effect on whether China might resort to ...

One of the largest solar storms in recent history was the 1859 Carrington Event, which released roughly the same energy as 10 billion 1-megaton atomic bombs. After slamming into Earth, the ...

Not so, it seems, as judging by the details, it has been reincarnated as the On-One Atomic. There’s even a not-so-subtle reference in the name – Atomic, Reactor, see? But the real confirmation comes ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Three survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan collected the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday on ...

The approach uses X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. Accurately determining atomic structures from spectroscopic data has long posed a challenge, particularly for complex ...