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

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Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? An international research team ...

Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? An ...

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

Scientists demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a world ...

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Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei. The method is ...

Mitochondria divide to share the load when nutrients are scarce — plus, how smashing atomic nuclei together helps identify their shapes.

A method to take snapshots of exploding nuclei could hold clues about the fundamental properties of gold, uranium and other ...

Different neutron states could explain why different experiments produce different figures for how long neutrons survive ...