Advancements in nuclear physics may soon enable the creation of stable, superheavy nuclei, paving the way for new materials ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U ...

Scientists demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a world ...

Steven Lamoreaux is an atomic physicist whose research has contributed to our understanding of the dark matter that is bound ...

Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, there has been ongoing research there into Higgs bosons and a search for ...

A method to take snapshots of exploding nuclei could hold clues about the fundamental properties of gold, uranium and other ...

Rick Schluter explains how he went from working aboard a nuclear submarine in the Navy to helping seniors with retirement ...

Advancements in nuclear physics suggest the possibility of discovering stable, superheavy elements. Researchers have found an ...

A characteristic of any thermal power plant — whether using coal, gas or spicy nuclear rocks — is that they have a closed ...

Atomic nuclei, composed of protons and neutrons, hide quarks and gluons at their core. These latter particles, still challenging to study, have long eluded scientists. In the mid-20th ...

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Hybrid model A new description of nuclei combines the quark–gluon model of particle physics with the proton–neutron description of nuclear physics. In this artist’s impression, quarks are illustrated ...