For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

I always thought my job as an artist was imposing order on chaos, but I realize now that chaos has its own intelligence… and is the very source of creation.” ...

Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, a physicist who studies 2D materials at the University of California, Irvine, likens the ...

The replication of the Nipah virus's genetic material in infected cells has been demonstrated for the first time by ...

A groundbreaking method for real-time 3D observation of atomic structural changes in nanoparticles has been developed, ...

Scientists have achieved an incredible feat—mapping the forces inside a proton with extreme precision, uncovering the immense ...

Atomic swaps allow direct cryptocurrency exchanges between blockchains without third parties. Utilizing smart contracts, atomic swaps automatically execute or cancel trades based on agreed terms ...

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Quantum sensors can be significantly more precise than conventional sensors and are used for Earth observation, navigation, material testing, and chemical or biomedical analysis, for example.

Russia has denied any responsibility for the attack. The head of the UN-backed international atomic energy watchdog, IAEA – which has a team based at the former Soviet nuclear site in Ukraine – issued ...

An eight-megaton explosion would be over 500 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ... composition and internal structure to understand how its impact might unfold.

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