This Tiny Particle is Redefining Our View of the Atomic Nucleus
University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...
Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize
Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the ...
Radioisotope generators—inside the 'nuclear batteries' that power faraway spacecraft
Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the sun's light can feel on Earth.
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The 1960s Tech Keeping NASA’s Voyager Probes Alive for Nearly 50 Years
Radioactive decay, or nuclear decay, happens when an unstable atomic nucleus spontaneously and randomly emits ... heat into ...
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The ‘quantum’ principle that says why atoms are as they are
The discovery of a charged substructure to atoms ... on Bohr started with a picture in which electrons circle the atomic nucleus, rather as planets orbit a star. He postulated that there are ...
New Piece In Matter-antimatter Puzzle
View of the LHCb experiment in its underground cavern (image: CERN) ...
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Dark Matter Might Lurk in Its Own Shadow World
Dark matter could be an entire dark sector of the universe, with its own particles and forces H ave you ever stood by the sea ...
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Unexpected shape of lead-208 nucleus prompts reevaluation of atomic nuclei models
An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb) is ...