forming a soup-like plasma in which the nuclear fusion reaction occurs. For a fledgling company working on one of the world’s ...

Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks ...

A recent breakthrough has paved the way for timekeeping even more precise than the measurements performed by atomic clocks.

Questing for a truly constant “tick,” scientists have zoomed in on the atomic world, where the minuscule scales and ...

The timekeeping device is made with atomic nuclei of thorium, although it is not yet more precise than standard atomic clocks ...

This region, referred to as the "island of inversion," has played a significant role in advancing our understanding of nuclear structure. In this presentation, I will discuss the physics of exotic ...

Graduate student Zhang Chuankun helps lab pinpoint laser frequency to drive timekeepers that could test foundations of ...

“This allows [us] to probe details of the nucleus, like its shape change when it goes from one quantum state to another, with an accuracy that was never accessible in nuclear physics before,” Thorsten ...

The Frontier supercomputer simulated magnetic responses inside calcium-48, depicted by red and blue spheres. Insights into ...

New research reveals unique two-proton decay in 18Mg, impacting nuclear physics theories and applications. A team of ...

Scientists have for the first time mechanically detected individual nuclear decays occurring in a microparticle. The research ...

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