But there is a bit of a problem, in that the two descriptions of the nucleus of an atom don't sit too well together. Physicists gain knowledge of atomic nuclei largely by bombarding them with smaller ...

Nuclear fission, discovered in 1938, involves splitting an atom's nucleus, releasing energy. It's essential for electricity ...

The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic ...

A study in Nature Physics has realized a dual-species Rydberg array combining rubidium (Rb) and cesium (Cs) atoms to enhance ...

The atom is a complex system of particles. It’s made up of a central nucleus consisting of protons and neutrons, called nucleons, with electrons orbiting around the nucleus. Nobel prize-winning ...

On New York's Long Island, scientists are building an ambitious machine to tease apart the mysteries held inside atomic ...

Texas A&M University professor Peter McIntyre and his colleagues want to build a particle accelerator around the rim of the ...

Fusion startups have been on a fundraising tear lately, and a young startup, Acceleron Fusion, is joining the pack, having ...

Consider the atom, the basic building block of matter that’s made up of a nucleus surrounded by a cloud of mobile electrons. The atomic clock’s lynchpin is the electron—to tell time ...