Greg Piefer is a UW-Madison College of Engineering product who is bullish about fusion uses today while urging patience over ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

N uclear fission—when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy—may seem like a process that is fully understood. First discovered in 1939 and thoroughly studied ever since ...

It was a process that came to be known as nuclear fission. Meitner calculated that the nucleus splitting released a fantastic burst of energy. One single atom bursting released enough energy to ...

But she pointed out that “the United States was the first country to harness the energy within the atom, through nuclear fission to create nuclear weapons.” Perhaps it’s no surprise ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...

Fission sees the nucleus of unstable elements ... Regardless of who was first to split the atom, the work of Rutherford, Walton, Cockcroft, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Geiger, Marsden and a host of ...