Purdue University and Duke Energy will host the next installment of the Understanding Tomorrow’s Nuclear Energy Lecture Series in January. Kathryn D. Huff, assistant secretary for nuclear energy in ...
In the wake of last month’s meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, the Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) will bring world-renowned nuclear physicist Dr. Kelvin ...
Twice every year, the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute sponsors the Arthur Holly Compton lecture series, which provide the public an inside look at the questions about the universe with ...
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String theory: Scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...
Hands on: an NTEC student operating the VR-1 Reactor at the Czech Technical University. “What we offer is a vocational programme, the whole goal of which is to support the nuclear industry,” says ...
1 The Arts and Humanities (AH) and Social Sciences (SS) perspectives are subsets of the Breadth of Knowledge (BOK) requirements in the Core Curriculum. No more than two BOK courses can be taken with ...
Nuclear fusion — the reaction that produces light and heat from the sun — could be a clean and unlimited global energy supplier in the future. But the process of harnessing the energy in a controlled ...
In his school days Gamow became very much interested in astronomy, examining the starry sky through a little telescope, his father's present on the thirteenth birthday of his son. Gamow then decided ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University researchers are part of a five-year, $11.24 million initiative from the U.S. Department of Energy to solve challenging and complex issues central to advancing ...
Lise Meitner was a pioneering physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics. She was part of a team that discovered nuclear fission — a term she coined — but she was overlooked in 1945 when ...
Sometimes I think that physicists can dwell too much in the past. Scientific papers, for example, often begin with a potted history of the field and it’s only in the second page that something new is ...
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