Ex-Canadian soldiers to be compensated for A-tests

Hundreds of former Canadian soldiers will receive compensation for being assigned to participate in atomic bomb tests by the U.S. and British militaries in the 1960s, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

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Chavez mocks critics with 'atomic bicycle'

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is mocking critics who question his close relationship with Iran by showing off what he calls an "atomic bicycle."

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Company to Show Off Uranium Centrifuge

In a building far from public view in the tree-covered hills of southern Ohio, the company that recycles uranium from Russian warheads for fueling U.S. nuclear power plants is preparing to demonstrate an advance from Cold War technology.

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Steadier lasers could make best atomic clock yet

A clock that loses just one second every 60 million years might seem tough to beat. Nevertheless, conventional atomic clocks, which use caesium ions, could soon be replaced by those featuring arrays of strontium atoms as the gold standard for time keeping.

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Considering the most recent mishap with the hadron collider project (CERN, The Large Hadron Collider Project), nanotechnology is under the microscope.

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The Obama administration claims that construction of a second Iranian uranium enrichment facility at Qom began before Tehran's decision to withdraw from a previous agreement to inform the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in advance of such construction.

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A British nuclear energy expert who plunged 40 metres to his death at the United Nations' (UN) building in Vienna may have been murdered, police said today (Thurs).

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Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press.

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A shipwreck that could contain nuclear waste is being investigated by authorities in Italy amid claims that it was deliberately sunk by the mafia.

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Iran's Revolutionary Guards said today that it would strike Israel's nuclear facilities if Tel Aviv attacked the Islamic state, state television reported.

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While the effort to detect gravitational waves is ongoing, the researchers have now used the LIGO apparatus to observe the oscillations of a 2.7 kg pendulum mode at a level close to its quantum ground state.

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The incoming head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday he did not see any hard evidence Iran was trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear arms.

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More than 50 years after a 7,600lb (3,500kg) nuclear bomb was dropped in US waters following a mid-air military collision, the question of whether the missing weapon still poses a threat remains.

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"Zipper structures break new ground on coupling photonics with micromechanics, and can impact the way we measure motion, even into the quantum realm," More Articles

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Previous experiments have entangled the internal properties of particles, such as spin states, but this is the first time scientists have entangled the particles' pattern of motion. More Articles

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Another Fine Mess

For the second time in three years, North Korea has tested a nuclear device, to the great consternation and teeth-gashing of just about everybody.

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Radioactive material flung into the atmosphere by nuclear bomb tests is helping scientists to fight the multi-million pound trade in counterfeit antique malt whisky.

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North Korea announced on Tuesday it would quit six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and restart its atomic weapons programme in protest at the UN's condemnation of its rocket launch.

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For the first time, superstring theorists can point to a place where their formulas help other physicists understand something they can see in their experiments.

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A new approach to trapping rainbows could lead to a form of computing that uses many different colours of light at once to convey information, according to an international research team. More Articles

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Faster-than-light particles, or "tachyons", may be fundamentally impossible, according to two mathematical physicists. If they're right, their new theory would also imply that time – seemingly one of the most fundamental facets of nature – is no more than a mirage.

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Research led by the University of Warwick has found a way to use doughnut shaped by-products of quantum dots to slow and even freeze light, opening up a wide range of possibilities from reliable and effective light-based computing to the possibility of "slow glass."

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A veteran consultant to US spy agencies predicted on Saturday that Iran won't build nuclear bombs and that the power of its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will quickly fade.

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the physicists suggest using a pulsed magnetic field to spatially separate the particles' wave functions.

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This image depicts the interaction of nine plane waves—expanding sets of ripples, like the waves you would see if you simultaneously dropped nine stones into a still pond. More Articles

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The clock has been ticking for 60 years. We have come as close to being two minutes form midnight.. We are now passed the Cold War, yet the world now faces many more problems that could move the hands of the Doomsday Clock to midnight.

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In all previous work, it was assumed that one could squeeze indefinitely, simply tolerating the growth of uncertainty in the uninteresting direction. "But the world of polarization, like the Earth, is not flat," says Steinberg.

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Now, a new book says Moscow acquired the secret of the hydrogen bomb not from its own scientists but from an atomic spy at the Los Alamos weapons lab in New Mexico. More Articles

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