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Ronald Richter

Physics

President Perón, I'll give you fusion in a bottle

Ronald Richter promised Argentina limitless nuclear energy by controlling the process that powers the sun, and President Perón lapped it up

Features

Illustration of hydrogen atom with single proton at nucleus and single electron orbiting it

Physics

How big is a proton? No one knows exactly, and that's a problem

News

Calculations on blackboard

Physics

More haste, less speed: Don't rush to publish premature theory

Leader

LHC

Physics

Physicists look to the future as new particle dream dies

News

artist's impression of the future Hinkley point nuclear plant

Earth

Why Hinkley Point is a nuclear folly of Titanic proportions

Analysis

Robert Byer

Space

How lasers found gravitational waves – and could hunt for aliens

Features

A Sympetrum striolatum dragonfly

Technology

Dragonfly wings can track radiation doses after a nuclear mishap

News

Artwork of an asteroid zooming away from us with lots of cogs and engine parts attached to its backside

Space

Our top 5 wacky NASA missions that might just happen

News

A new power plant is planned for Hinkley in Somerset

Earth

Should the UK pull plug on Hinkley Point nuclear power station?

Comment

Scientist Inside A Fusion Reactor

Technology

New alloys could lead to next generation of nuke plant metals

Nuclear reactors destroy their casings over time, requiring costly repairs. A new type of high-entropy metals could make them more robust

News

Humans

How two dead power stations fuel the art of catastrophe

CultureLab

Earth

Wildlife heaven or nuclear hell: Chernobyl’s future up for grabs

News

Technology

Underwater drones may make hiding a nuclear missile sub harder

Comment

Technology

End of tough sanctions will mean the revival of Iranian science

Opinion