Particle accelerators aren’t just for testing the Standard Model. They’re also used to diagnose and treat disease and study world history.
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Atomic clocks undergird modern timekeeping. A nuclear clock could be even more precise.
Some processes that support fusion energy fuel climate change and may harm the environment.
Chinese American physicist Wu worked on the Manhattan Project and performed groundbreaking experiments throughout her long career.
Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the discoverer of nuclear fission.
Alongside their famous dangers, radioactive materials have many beneficial uses. With as many more predicted as have already been discovered, nuclear physicists are searching for more isotopes.
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