University of Queensland researchers have made a breakthrough in muonic atom research, clearing the way for new nuclear ...

JILA researchers are pioneering a nuclear clock using thorium-229, which offers unprecedented stability compared to atomic ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...

Two experiment collaborations, the g2p and EG4 collaborations, combined their complementary data on the proton's inner structure to improve calculations of a phenomenon in atomic physics known as the ...

In 2010, atomic physicists at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland measured the radius of a proton in muonic hydrogen and found it was smaller than previously thought. This unexpected ...

That, of course, is a reference to the World War II top secret development of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August 1945, ending the Pacific War with Japan ...

Now, it's not as though no one has ever looked at 208 Pb before. It's an atomic nucleus that has been studied at length. To discover that its shape is different from what physicists have pictured ...

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 ...