“The shape of nuclei affects almost all aspects of atomic nucleus and nuclear processes,” says Jie Meng, a nuclear physicist at Peking University in Beijing. The new imaging method, published ...

Atomic nuclei, composed of protons and neutrons, hide quarks and gluons at their core. These latter particles, still challenging to study, have long eluded scientists. In the mid-20th century, ...

Read the paper: Imaging shapes of atomic nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions Research into nuclear structure usually involves deducing the shape of a nucleus by exciting it to a higher energy ...

This is the promise of nuclear fusion, a process that powers the stars and could revolutionize life on Earth. Nuclear fusion ...

CERN researchers found that atomic nuclei shapes impact high-energy collision outcomes, offering new insights into nuclear ...

T he atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by ...

The most precise clocks in the world will lose only one second every 300 billion years—and someday they might fit in your pocket.

Fermium studies indicate nuclear shell effects diminish as nuclear mass increases, emphasizing macroscopic influences in ...

Why are there atomic clocks but no nuclear clocks? After all, an atom's nucleus is typically surrounded by many electrons, so in principle it should be less susceptible to outside noise (in the ...

A quark is an elementary particle that makes up protons and neutrons within the atomic nucleus. There are six types (called "flavors"): up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Quarks interact ...

Uranium was discovered in 1789. The later revelation that the element was radioactive helped usher in the modern era of ...