The event was part of the University’s on-going commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction. Nuclear physicist Barbara Jacak delivered a lecture entitled ...

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 ...

The Understanding Tomorrow’s Nuclear Energy lecture series, hosted by Purdue University and Duke Energy, is partnering with the Purdue Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series to host Richard K.

Nuclear physics research is focused on understanding the matter composed of quarks and gluons, which makes up 99% of the mass of the universe. Most of this matter is found at the core of atoms, the ...

Let's talk Einstein and Nuclear Physics. What does E=MC2 actually mean? Why is it useful? It's time for our second to final Physics episode. So, let's talk Einstein and Nuclear Physics. What does ...

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 ...

A series of free lectures at the University of Chicago will describe how the machines that physicists have built to understand matter on the smallest scales over the last century have found additional ...