A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

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Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

For a long time, the Greenwald limit was accepted as a given and incorporated into fusion reactor engineering. The new work shows that precise control over how the plasma is created and interacts with ...

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At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

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A rare genetic variant found in families affected by schizophrenia completely abolishes the function of TAAR1, an emerging ...

This article outlines what lab sustainability entails, the benefits of becoming a more sustainable lab and provides 10 ...

In a new milestone for fusion energy research, physicists in China say they have exceeded the plasma-density limit.

Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally ...