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France, UK and Germany would restore UN sanctions on Iran next month without progress on a deal
The United Kingdom, France and Germany have agreed to restore tough U.N. sanctions on Iran by the end of August if there has ...
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Is Ukraine still a possible flashpoint for a larger war?
An interview with former US ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer back in May—when negotiations between Ukraine and Russia were ...
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World’s most accurate atomic clock uses 2-mile laser beam to track time precisely
The laser beam traveled 3.6 kilometers (over 2 miles) via fiber optic links to NIST, where a frequency comb (acting as a “ruler for light”) allowed the aluminum ion clock’s laser to adopt its superior ...
Why it’s the British we have to thank for the atom bomb
We tend to think of the US as the atomic bomb’s creators. But we’re ignoring some crucial figures, as Gareth Williams’s ...
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Mackenzie Knight-Boyle
Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists where her work focuses on the status and trends of ...
Why it’s really the British we have to thank for the atom bomb
Manhattan, Mayson, Maud. One of these is synonymous with the race to build an atomic bomb during the first half of the 1940s.
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💥 This new super-heavy atom challenges nuclear stability
Researchers have just created a new super-heavy isotope of seaborgium, called seaborgium-257. This type of unstable atom does not exist naturally on Earth. Seaborgium-257 lasts for ...