Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have synthesized ...

Heavy water is a form of water with a unique atomic structure and properties coveted ... help keep such a chain reaction going. As each uranium atom breaks apart, it shoots out neutrons that ...

They began to suspect that Fermi hadn't created a new element at all but might have actually split the uranium atom in two -- at that point a barely imaginable event. Before they could confirm ...