Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new detector at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has successfully observed ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State physicist has achieved a significant scientific advancement, producing a direct laboratory measurement of a key nuclear reaction believed to occur during ...

Physicists, led by Jaspreet Randhawa at Mississippi State University (MSU), have recreated a key nuclear reaction in a laboratory that actually occurs during explosive bursts on neutron stars. Such ...

For years, physicists have wondered whether one unstable form of copper might act like a traffic jam inside some of the most violent explosions in the universe. That question matters because those ...

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters examines how scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have successfully created key nuclear reactions ...

The Jinping Underground Nuclear Astrophysics (JUNA) collaboration has reported a recent direct measurement of the cross section of a crucial stellar neutron source reaction, 13 C(α,n) 16 O. The study ...

The strategies foreseen for future development and employment of nuclear power generation underline the use of nuclear energy systems in which the nuclear fuel contains consistent and controlled ...

A Mississippi State physicist has produced a direct laboratory measurement of a key nuclear reaction believed to occur during explosive bursts on neutron stars. These bursts forge heavier elements—the ...