For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics ...

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

The AMoRE experimental collaboration in South Korea has reported not finding evidence of neutrinoless double beta decay after ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

In the case of lead-208—the heaviest stable isotope known so far—a team of researchers led by physicist Jack Henderson ...

For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics research, and tests of ...

An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of llead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb ...

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Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics ... came Ernest Rutherford’s discovery that atoms contain a central ‘nucleus’ of densely packed positive charge.

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

The study revealed how the structure of a nucleus relates to the force that holds it together. This understanding could advance efforts in quantum physics and across a variety of sectors ...