A newly discovered aluminium isotope rapidly self-destructs by ejecting three protons in a rare sequence — shaking up our ...

Scientists have observed a brand-new and exotic atomic nucleus: aluminium-20. Unlike anything seen before, it decays through ...

Radioactive decay is a fundamental process in nature by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. Studying ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists from ETH Zurich, in collaboration with teams from Germany and Australia, have made strides in the search for a potential ...

For the first time, the state of an atomic nucleus was switched with a laser. For decades, physicists have been looking for such a nuclear transition - now it has been found by TU Wien and PTB ...

Solving this for an atomic nucleus therefore provides a cloud of probability for all of the possible places it could be, which, taken together, give the nuclear shape. RELATED MYSTERIES.

Keeping time with an atomic nucleus Date: May 25, 2023 Source: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Summary: Nuclear clocks could allow scientists to probe the fundamental forces of the ...

With seven protons and two neutrons, the lopsided atomic nucleus of nitrogen-9 pushes the limits of what can even be considered a nucleus.

Atomic clocks measure time so precisely that they gain or lose less than a second every 30 billion years. With so-called nuclear clocks, it would be possible to measure time even more accurately.