Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the sun's light can feel on Earth.
For the first time, scientists have acquired direct evidence of rare, pulsing pear-shaped structures within atomic nuclei of ...
For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.
Einsteinium-255, produced through irradiation in ILL’s high-flux reactor, provided a continuous supply of fermium-255, ...
Two experiment collaborations, the g2p and EG4 collaborations, combined their complementary data on the proton’s inner ...
A long-held belief about one of the universe’s heaviest stable isotopes has been upended by new findings that challenge past beliefs that its atomic nucleus is perfectly spherical. The discovery, made ...
By contrast, fission involves splitting a heavy atomic nucleus like uranium into two smaller nuclei, also releasing energy. Fission is used in nuclear power plants, resulting in radioactive waste.
That’s a tenth the radius of a small atom, but about a thousand times the size of an atomic nucleus. Nevertheless, that’s still a great deal smaller than the top end of previous studies ...