Using the Summing Nal Detector, a team of experimental and theoretical scientists at FRIB took another step in understanding how an atomic nucleus can have two different shapes corresponding to only ...

A new milestone in nuclear physics has been achieved with the direct observation of three different deformations in the atomic nucleus of lead-190 (190Pb). These deformations, associated with three ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

For the first time in almost 30 years, the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton emission has been measured. The previous similar breakthrough was achieved in 1996. "Proton emission is a rare form of ...

Researchers from Los Angeles, Munich, and Mainz open new avenues for nucleus-based quantum technologies A research team from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Ludwig Maximilian ...

Scientists at Delft University of Technology have managed to watch a single atomic nucleus flip its magnetic state in real time. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, they indirectly read the nucleus ...

Today, it is common to use lasers to manipulate atoms and molecules, and by precisely selecting the wavelength of the laser, it is possible to transition atoms and molecules into different states, ...

Lise Meitner, a brilliant physicist, was instrumental in understanding nuclear fission but was overlooked for the Nobel Prize ...

Since the atomic nucleus was first proposed in 1911, physicists simply assumed it was round. But are the nuclei of atoms really round? Intuitively this shape makes sense and physicists believed it ...

(Nanowerk News) When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max ...

Discover how physicists converted lead into gold using nuclear reactions. Learn the science behind it and explore this ...