In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

Physicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have a novel plan to uncover an unknown fifth force of nature long theorized to exist ...

The advancement made at the Wendelstein 7-X reactor is another to the list of breakthroughs that brings the world a ...

The 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 ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

How an atomic nucleus can have two different shapes with only slightly different energy levels by Eric Gedenk, Michigan State University Facility for Rare Isotope Beams ...

Since the atomic nucleus was first proposed in 1911, physicists simply assumed it was round. But are the nuclei of atoms really round? Intuitively this shape makes sense and physicists believed it ...

A recent breakthrough has paved the way for timekeeping even more precise than the measurements performed by atomic clocks.

Researchers at Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) have made a fascinating discovery: a tiny ...

Our estimates of the size of a neutrino span from smaller than an atomic nucleus to as large as a few metres, but now we are starting to narrow down its true value ...