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

For decades, scientists believed that lead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb), the heaviest known "doubly magic" nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

In a surprising turn of events, an international team of scientists has found that lead-208 (208Pb), the heaviest known ...

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

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

Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has ...

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

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 ...

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

In the search for “dark forces”, physicists came across deformed nuclei. M. Door et al.: Probing new bosons and nuclear ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it first is almost as complex as the science involved. After all, as particle ...