Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, together with international collaborators, have developed a new electron ...

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Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

The time is nigh for nuclear clocks. In a first, scientists have used a tabletop laser to bump an atomic nucleus into a higher energy state. It’s a feat that sets scientists on a path toward creating ...

Physicists have caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a device weighing just a few kilograms, orders of magnitude less massive than standard neutrino detectors. The technique opens new ways to ...