Astrophysicists are closing in on one of the strangest possibilities in stellar evolution, a compact remnant that might sit ...

For years, physicists have mapped the stability of atomic nuclei with remarkable confidence. The periodic table, with its ...

On 13 September 2025, 40 researchers came together at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) to discuss the neutron-lifetime ...

The ALICE collaboration has performed one of the most precise studies of strange-to-non-strange hadron production to date at ...

Known as “islands of inversion,” these regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...

What’s going on with this silent threat that can stealthily damage your body in ways that can take years to reveal themselves ...

When humans traveled to the moon, large quantities of a very rare gas known as helium-3 were extracted. Until then, it was ...

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The pressure hulls of U.S. Navy nuclear submarines consist of many steel plates joined by precision manual or robotic welding ...

Drilling at the Topaz Project near Babbitt detected helium-3 around 14.5 ppb—comparable to Apollo lunar samples—within deep ...

An atom is the smallest unit of an element that retains its chemical properties. It is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. (Image: M ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected breakdown of nuclear order in a remarkably symmetric atom, challenging long-standing ...