Researchers have confirmed the existence of a "nuclear-spin dark state," which could lead to more stable and powerful quantum ...

An international team of physicists has successfully measured the size of a certain type of neutrino to a certain degree. In ...

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

The short answer is; no. We will never see atoms using visible light, simply because the wavelength of visible light (around 400 to 700 nanometers) is larger than the size of an atom (around 0.1 to ...

For the first time, researchers have been able to measure the quantum state of electrons ejected from atoms that have ...

Forced to run a labyrinth of carbon atoms uniquely arranged in twisted stacks, electrons do some rather peculiar things.

The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...

The recent inaugural address of President Donald Trump has sparked a heated debate over the origins of a groundbreaking scientific achievement: splitting the atom. Trump's claim that American ...

enabling us to experiment with a wide range of materials and engineering configurations.” A fusion power station generating 3 gigawatts of electricity – equivalent to the largest of UK power ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 while ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in U.S. president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. The mayor of ...