The nuclear pore is a protein-lined channel in the nuclear envelope that regulates the transportation of molecules between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. In eukaryotic cells, the nucleus is ...

A protein called torsinA plays a key role in the early development of neurons, determining where nuclear pores are placed in the membrane that encloses the nucleus of nerve cells, a study led by ...

The Master in Nuclear Engineering is a Joint Master ETH Zurich – EPF Lausanne in cooperation with the Paul Scherrer Institute. The first semester takes place at EPFL; the second semester at ETH Zurich ...

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The IAEA's Nuclear Security Series provides international consensus guidance on all aspects of nuclear security to support States as they work to fulfil their responsibility for nuclear security. The ...

The risk of nuclear war is the highest it has been since the end of the Cold War. The cause lies primarily with Russia’s ongoing nuclear threats and drills amid the conflict in Ukraine, but not with ...

Because nuclear power uses up radioactive fuel, it is not renewable in the same way. Nuclear energy, however, is the second-largest source of low-carbon electricity in the world behind hydropower.

That may seem good enough for most. But in a paper recently published in Nature, researchers report being ready to build its successor: the nuclear clock. Ekkehard Peik, one of the field’s ...

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY may be approaching its Mitchell moment. George Mitchell, a scrappy independent oilman, is known as the father of fracking. Nearly three decades ago, he defied Big Oil and the ...

The world is now closer to an actual nuclear conflagration than at any time since the end of the Cold War. A nuclear test on May 25, 1953, at the Nevada Proving Grounds. This article originally ...

Artificial intelligence’s hunger for energy has set off a boom in utility stocks and may lead to the reopening of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, our columnist says. By Jeff Sommer Jeff ...

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