Physicists have caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a device weighing just a few kilograms, orders of magnitude ...

Though atomic nuclei are often depicted as static clusters of protons and neutrons (nucleons), the particles are actually ...

Physicists recorded the lowest-energy neutrino event yet, using signals from the particles’ antimatter counterpart produced ...

A compact 3 kg (6.6 lbs) detector has allowed scientists to detect elusive antineutrinos from a nuclear reactor.

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

Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high ...

In a groundbreaking studypublished in Physical Review Letters, researchers led by Professor Dong Eon Kim of POSTECH’s ...

Keeping time with an atomic nucleus Date: May 26, 2023 Source: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Summary: Nuclear clocks could allow scientists to probe the fundamental forces of the ...

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.

Since the 1970s, there has been speculation that there might be a special atomic nucleus which, unlike other nuclei, could perhaps be manipulated with a laser, namely thorium-229.

Since the 1970s, there has been speculation that there might be a special atomic nucleus which, unlike other nuclei, could perhaps be manipulated with a laser, namely thorium-229. This nucleus has two ...

Nuclear clocks — based on tiny shifts in energy in an atomic nucleus — could be even more accurate and stable than other advanced timekeeping systems, but have been difficult to make.