Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a ...
A pulse of light sets the tempo in the material. Atoms in a crystalline sheet just a few atoms thick begin to move—not ...
A flash of light has turned a sheet of atoms into a dance floor. In a feat of precision physics, researchers from Cornell and ...
A novel experiment has revealed a phenomenon called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect in a pear-shaped nucleus in a molecule for the ...
Nuclear energy is a form of energy released from the nucleus, the core of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons. This source of energy can be produced in two ways: fission – when nuclei of atoms ...