This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Over Christmas vacation in 1938, physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch received puzzling scientific news in a ...

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The fuel rods of a nuclear reactor are now shining blue and red on the screens of iPads, iPhones and iPods. Researchers and students in the University of Utah's Nuclear Engineering Program are using ...