The IAEA profiles employees to provide insight into the variety of career paths that support the Agency’s mission of Atoms for Peace and Development and to inspire and encourage readers, particularly ...

Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does ...

Rare earths are not very rare, but challenges in ensuring the economic viability of extraction and processing mean that one ...

The second Ministerial Meeting of the IAEA World Fusion Energy Group was held on Tuesday 14 October in Chengdu, China, co-chaired by the China Atomic Energy Authority and the IAEA. The meeting brought ...

(THE CONVERSATION) X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell whether you have a broken bone. More powerful beams made up of very short flashes of X-rays can help ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

In a study published in Nature Communications, a research team demonstrates the all-electrical control of quantum ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

Remarkably, even though radioactivity is a threat to life, scientists can control and use it to diagnose and treat diseases – including cancers. If the radiation is delivered precisely to where cancer ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...