A four-term Democratic senator from Louisiana, he pushed for nuclear power and ending the nation’s reliance on foreign oil.

In and his team have developed a prototype betavoltaic battery using carbon-14, a radioactive isotope that emits only beta rays. Radiocarbon is inexpensive and easy to recycle, but it also degrades at ...

Pulsar Fusion has introduced Sunbird, a nuclear fusion-powered rocket that could significantly cut space travel time.

With a new measurement imminent, the Courier explores the experimental results and theoretical calculations used to predict ...

Sometimes cell phones die sooner than expected or electric vehicles don't have enough charge to reach their destination. The ...

Scientists have developed a prototype nuclear battery using radiocarbon that could power small devices for decades without ...

Imagine never charging your phone again or having a pacemaker that lasts a lifetime. Scientists are developing tiny nuclear ...

These particles are so ghostly that trillions of them pass through Earth each day without notice. So, how do we detect them?

The atomic energy of betavoltaic batteries can power a variety of devices, from aerospace and robots to your future ...

Physicists have used a cutting-edge quantum computer to simulate a complex particle theory in two dimensions. Unlike ...

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, entered its 25th and final ...