Scientists say they now know why and when Gigantopithecus blacki disappeared, over the course of nearly a decade, a team of ...

Maharashtra has signed an MoU with Russia's ROSATOM to develop small modular reactors using thorium fuel. This initiative ...

Maharashtra signed an MoU with Russian state company ROSATOM for developing a small modular reactor using thorium fuel. The ...

The US Treasury Department issued new sanctions Wednesday targeting five Iranian entities and one individual supporting Iran’s nuclear program, just days before American and Iranian ...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israel would be the “leader” of a potential military strike against Iran if Tehran doesn’t give up its nuclear weapons program. Trump made the comments ahead ...

Five entities and one person based in Iran are cited in the new sanctions for their support of Iran’s nuclear program. The ...

A revolutionary timekeeping breakthrough could be on the horizon as scientists explore the thorium-229 nuclear optical clock, ...

Thorium is often suggested as the basis for new, better, and safer nuclear reactors, but is this true, and why?

Atomic clocks have long been the gold standard for measuring time and frequency. Among them, optical clocks—using atoms like strontium or aluminum—have reached staggering levels of accuracy, with ...

In a National Science Review perspective, the research progress and future challenges of nuclear optical clocks are presented ...

How India can side-step FBR deployment delays A quick solution to tide over this problem could lie in irradiating thorium — the radioactive metallic element named after the Norse god that has been a ...

Trump told reporters at the White House that he was unaware of the incident. "I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic," Trump said. A White House official said later that ...