Royal Society unearths top secret nuclear research
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Only 66 years late 75 years of the neutron In his long-awaited energy white paper, published this May, Tony Blair opined that energy could be "as important to our future as defence".â¦
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A device from Argonne National Lab takes a fresh approach to generating t-rays.
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The world's leading center for research into the origins of matter on Wednesday took a giant step toward the launch of a 15-year experiment which scientists hope will unlock many secrets of the universe.
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Scientists were astounded to learn that radiation poisoning killed Alexander V. Litvinenko, and alarm spread across London.
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What is the radioactive substance at the centre of the Alexander  Litvinenko case?
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Stunned by the revelation that a British scientist was passing American nuclear secrets to the Soviets immediately after World War II, diplomats feared the scandal could result in Britain's exclusion from U.S. atomic weapons programs, documents released Friday revealed.
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Officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory used unsecure e-mail to share classified information concerning materials used in nuclear weapons.
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UK physicists have completed the first crucial element of an experimental device designed to probe the forces that shape our Universe.
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A decade-long mystery has been solved using data from ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton.
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Long before the public learned in late January that a damaged U.S. spy satellite carrying toxic fuel was going to crash to Earth, the government secretly assembled a high-powered team of officials and scientists to study the feasibility of shooting it down with a missile.
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Our correspondent David Shukman visits the huge underground complex of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva which is 50 years old this week.
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The future of one of Europe's scientific "crown jewels" may be hit by current funding concerns in UK physics.
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An international team of astronomers has succeeded in solving the 100 year-old mystery about the origin of the cosmic rays by producing the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays.
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The United Nations nuclear watchdog is investigating a secret uranium-enrichment experiment that South Korean scientists conducted four years
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The radioactive isotope polonium-210 has been detected at a London stadium that hosted a soccer match attended by a key figure in the probe of the fatal radiation poisoning of a former Russian spy, a British official said Wednesday.
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The world's longest continually running experiment has revealed traces of plutonium in British soil from nuclear tests in the Nevada desert 50 years ago, scientists said on Monday.
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Take a photo tour of mankind's most ambitious physics experiment ever.