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Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have detected a new ultra-faint ...

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Faculty of Physics and CeNS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80539 München, Germany Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University of Munich, 85748 München, Germany Physics Department, TUM ...

National Observations and Research Station for Wetland Ecosystems of the Yangtze Estuary, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China ...

The two collaborations combined their complementary data on the proton's inner structure to improve calculations of a phenomenon in atomic physics: the hyperfine splitting of hydrogen. An atom of ...

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a battery that can convert nuclear waste into electricity. This innovative technology utilizes ambient gamma radiation from spent nuclear ...

India’s nuclear program evolved in three phases: before 1974, between 1974 and 1998, and post-1998. The foundation was set in 1948 with the Atomic Energy Act, introduced by Prime Minister Jawaharlal ...