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

Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultra-precise clock that could ...

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

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.

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

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

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

Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions ... the break-up of a nucleus, and fusion, the merging of nuclei. Smashing uranium-238 ...

But the particles are truly tiny, with a mass 1,838 times smaller than the already-minuscule proton ... nucleus separated by a significant empty space by their orbiting electrons. By the mid-20th ...

Fermilab engineers are developing innovative solutions to build durable particle detector targets for neutrino experiments.

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