Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at ...

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Two independent teams of scientists have created the first functional clocks that can keep ultraprecise time using the nuclei ...

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Attosecond pulses currently produced in the laboratory from high-harmonic generation or free-electron lasers lie in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray spectral regions. Therefore, absorption of a ...

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Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number of protons equals the number of neutrons. For decades, these strange regions ...

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Munich-based Proxima Fusion has signed an agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics to construct the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power ...

A special set of numbers has formed the backbone of nuclear physics research for decades, and now we finally know how it arises from the quantum mix of nuclear particles and forces. Nearly 80 years ...

An awe-inspiring science project by a Dallas ISD seventh-grader is now drawing national attention, as the student works to secure a Guinness World Record as the youngest person to achieve nuclear ...

The origin of chemical elements and their abundances across the cosmos remain one of the central questions in physics. The formation of elements heavier than iron is traditionally attributed to three ...