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This video explores the fundamental components of an atom, including protons, neutrons, and electrons, challenging the ...

A comprehensive guide to uranium, explaining its extraction, enrichment process, nuclear chain reactions, and its role in global geopolitics.

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Mrs Roberts: What do you think you're made of? Mr Spellman: Big question. Grit, determination, hard-working, handsome, charming, funny. Mrs Roberts: Well, I guess. But you're actually made of atoms.

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According to our current understanding of the universe, quarks are fundamental, point-like particles: basic building blocks ...

US–Iran nuclear talks have stalled over uranium. A simple explanation of what uranium is, how enrichment works, and why this ...

SINCE we described in NATURE of March 29, p. 459, the relation between the satellites of mercury lines and the isotopes, we have found that the structure of the line 3131.84 does not satisfy the ...

The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...