Scientists have been left baffled after discovering something vast and radioactive lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean ...

For almost a century, measurements have indicated that a significant proportion of matter in the universe consists of unknown ...

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Three-nucleon force affects nuclear stability, impacting element formation and stellar evolution. The force increases energy ...

Greg Piefer is a UW-Madison College of Engineering product who is bullish about fusion uses today while urging patience over ...

The international team also used the data to get direct information about the deformation of the atomic nucleus in ytterbium ...

Fusion technology is a long way from powering a grid — if it ever will. Dozens of fusion startups have launched anyway.

Isotopes are forms of an element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons. There are three isotopes of hydrogen: hydrogen, deuterium (hydrogen-2) and tritium ...

Probably each part will thus give rise to a chain of disintegrations. If one of the parts is an isotope of barium 5, the other will be krypton (Z = 92 − 56), which might decay through rubidium ...

Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions that hold them together in a space just a few femtometres (10-15 metres) across. Example ...