Purdue University and Duke Energy will host the next installment of the Understanding Tomorrow’s Nuclear Energy Lecture Series in January. Kathryn D. Huff, assistant secretary for nuclear energy in ...

In the wake of last month’s meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, the Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) will bring world-renowned nuclear physicist Dr. Kelvin ...

A series of 10 free lectures at the University of Chicago will explore the bewildering number and variety of energy transformations that make everyday conveniences possible. These are easy to take for ...

Twice every year, the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute sponsors the Arthur Holly Compton lecture series, which provide the public an inside look at the questions about the universe with ...

Nuclear fusion — the reaction that produces light and heat from the sun — could be a clean and unlimited global energy supplier in the future. But the process of harnessing the energy in a controlled ...

Nuclear physics research is focused on understanding the matter composed of quarks and gluons, which makes up 99% of the mass of the universe. Most of this matter is found at the core of atoms, the ...