For the first time in almost 30 years, the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton emission has been measured. The previous ...

Proton emission is a rare form of radioactive decay, in which the nucleus emits a proton to take a step towards stability,” ...

For the first time in more than thirty years, the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton emission has been measured. The ...

A research team led by Chinese scientists has synthesized a novel, extremely neutron-deficient isotope, protactinium-210, for ...

Google has invested in TAE Technologies' latest funding round after years of collaboration, aiming to commercialise energy ...

An international research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has measured the radius of the nucleus of muonic helium ...

Atomic nucleus excited with laser: a breakthrough after decades The 'thorium transition', which has been sought after for decades, has now been excited for the first time with lasers. This paves ...

More than 100 years after scientists began studying the atomic nucleus, they still don’t understand what holds it together. The nuclear force is the strongest force in the universe, yet it ...

Nuclear energy is the most promising tool that we have to tackle the climate emergency, so argues Tim Gregory in his new book Going Nuclear How the Atom Will Save the World. He says it is time to ...

The temporary pair of correlated nucleons is highlighted in purple. The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by gluons.