An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the ...

A long-held belief involving lead-208 challenges past beliefs that the element’s atomic nucleus is a perfect sphere.

Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has remained a challenging task. More than a century later, even with today's ...

Scientists have achieved an incredible feat—mapping the forces inside a proton with extreme precision, uncovering the immense ...

T he atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by gluons. It would seem, therefore, that it should not be difficult to ...

Doubly magic nuclei are particularly stable against nuclear decay; 208 Pb is the heaviest known stable isotope of any element ...

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a new method for predicting nuclear structures using the Frontier ...

UCLA physicists have developed a new thin film that uses far less of the rare thorium-229 while also being significantly less ...

An international research collaboration has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about ...

The first direct measurement of the size of the neutrino, a fundamental particle, suggests they are at least larger than an atomic nucleus – but they could potentially be trillions of times larger.