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World's first thorium-229 nuclear clock shows potential for ultra-precise timekeeping and fundamental physics tests.

It’s a knockout Illustration of how close pairing was studied. A high-energy electron (purple) scatters from a nucleus by emitting a virtual photon (purple). The photon goes on to knock out a proton ...

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Russian strikes killed at least 21 across Ukraine over the weekend and into Monday as Kyiv struck a Russian oil refinery, while Zelenskyy and IAEA warned of renewed nuclear risks at Chernobyl. Russian ...

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Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted fresh warnings about the ...