As if searching for dark matter isn't difficult enough already, physicists may have detected another hurdle known as a ...

What’s nature’s limit?” Ye likes to think of the nucleus of an atom, the basic building block of matter, as a thick soup of ...

Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? An international research team ...

Based on an experiment at CERN, a collaboration led by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, can predict hitherto unchartered changes in the shape of nuclei.

Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? An ...

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

Nuclear fission has powered our world and medical advancements for decades. What exactly happens when an atom's nucleus splits into two parts?

Mitochondria divide to share the load when nutrients are scarce — plus, how smashing atomic nuclei together helps identify their shapes.

The nuclei of different atom species have different shapes from round to oval ... to about 5 trillion degrees Celsius (°C), whereby the components of the nucleus c– protons and neutrons – are broken ...

A simulation by US theoretical physicists has provided the first fully microscopic characterization of the moment an atom ...

Why are there atomic clocks but no nuclear clocks? After all, an atom's nucleus is typically surrounded by many electrons, so ...