Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...

As if searching for dark matter isn't difficult enough already, physicists may have detected another hurdle known as a ...

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have used supercomputer simulations to predict electric charge distributions in ...

Nuclear fission has powered our world and medical advancements for decades. What exactly happens when an atom's nucleus splits into two parts?

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The nucleus of the Xenon atom can assume different shapes depending on the balance of internal forces at play. As two Xenon atoms collide in the CERN experiment, extremely hot conditions are created ...

With advancements in imaging technology, the first successful dark matter detector might turn out to be an ancient rock. The visible universe — every potato, gas giant, steamy romance novel, black ...

Atomic nuclei, composed of protons and neutrons, hide quarks and gluons at their core. These latter particles, still challenging to study, have long eluded scientists. In the mid-20th ...

A simulation by US theoretical physicists has provided the first fully microscopic characterization of the moment an atom ...

Analyzing billion-year-old rocks, researchers at Virginia Tech hope to find traces of dark matter. The idea was first ...

Why are there atomic clocks but no nuclear clocks? After all, an atom's nucleus is typically surrounded by many electrons, so ...

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