A potassium blood test is used to measure the amount of potassium in your blood. It is part of a panel of blood tests called a basic metabolic panel (BMP) that measures different substances in your ...

At a certain point, that intense heat pressure will trigger a fusion reaction, firing out neutrons that will superheat the liquid metal. Like in a fission nuclear reactor, that heat would be used ...

The Xinghuo reactor, a joint venture between China Nuclear Industry 23 Construction Corporation and Lianovation Superconductor, aims for a Q value exceeding 30.

Baryons consist of three quarks, and include protons and neutrons. In the latest work, researchers observed subtle differences between the decay rates of a particle called the beauty-lambda baryon ...

Using neutrons allowed for nondestructive testing of the membrane mimic, letting scientists see the structures and arrangements of molecules. The instrument is supported by the DOE Biological and ...

He wrote, "After a handful of stressful tests just days before my 13th birthday, I successfully achieved fusion and detected these neutrons as proof!" Jackson's remarkable accomplishment quickly ...

The flux of neutrons converted the Potassium-39 in feldspar into Argon-39, which then acted as a proxy for potassium in the dating process. The sample was heated to release trapped gases ...

All the nuclear power plants in operation right now use nuclear fission—the process of splitting apart an atom—to produce energy. But scientists have spent decades and entire careers in a ...