In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

An international team of astronomers including researchers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust surrounding ...

For the fundamental isotope hydrogen, which contains only a single proton, several very neutron-rich isotopes from ⁴H to ⁷H have been observed beyond the well-known deuteron and triton. Setup of the ...

Production and measurement of the extremely neutron-rich hydrogen isotope 6H achieved for the first time in an electron scattering experiment / Result shows stronger than expected interaction between ...

New method to produce an extremely heavy hydrogen isotope Date: April 30, 2025 Source: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Summary: Scientists have produced one of the most neutron-rich isotopes ...

Rep. David Steffen, R-Howard, is one of the lawmakers who authored a package of three bills supporting nuclear development in Wisconsin and streamlining the process of locating a new fusion energy ...

To most of the U.S. public the hydrogen bomb was still a direful novelty last week, but to scientists there was little new about it. Long before the discovery of uranium fission they had known that ...

Piefer’s plan is to fire an isotope of hydrogen called deuterium in a beam towards an enclosure containing highly radioactive tritium gas, tritium being another hydrogen isotope.

The most used isotopes of hydrogen for nuclear fusion are deuterium and tritium. Deuterium can be extracted from seawater, while lithium can produce tritium within the reactor itself.