Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a ...

No one can control the weather, but certain clouds can be deliberately triggered to release rain or snow. The process, known ...

The West Lake Landfill contains radioactive waste materials from the Manhattan Project that were illegally dumped in 1973. This waste is located approximately 1,000 feet (or hundreds of feet) away ...

Scientists have confirmed that a large crater in China’s southern Guangdong province formed as a result of an asteroid impact around 10,000 years ago, at a time when human civilisation was undergoing ...

A team of UC Riverside engineers has discovered why a key solid-state battery material stays remarkably cool during operation—a breakthrough that could help make the next generation of lithium ...

Transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) have been advancing our knowledge of the very small for nearly 100 years. Since their advent, they have helped scientists see structures as small as individual ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing in ...

Nuclear energy is a form of energy released from the nucleus, the core of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons. This source of energy can be produced in two ways: fission – when nuclei of atoms ...