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

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

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

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

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

Based on an experiment at CERN, a collaboration led by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, can predict hitherto unchartered changes in the shape of nuclei.

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

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

The histone proteins of complex cells are named H2A, H2B, H3 and H4. They are assembled into groups of eight, around which a ...

The infinite possibility in a moment is familiar to anyone who enjoys torturing themselves over where life went awry. You know, anyone with regrets cycling forever in their mind. But what if those ...

revealing that atoms consisted of a positively charged nucleus separated by a significant empty space by their orbiting electrons. By the mid-20th century, scientists were aware of the basic structure ...

The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...