An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey’s Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb) is perfectly ...

Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks—the tiny particles ...

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales simultaneously—ranging from hundreds down to fractions of a megaelectronvolt. A new study demonstrates that these drastically different scales can be ...

Physicists searching for “dark forces” unexpectedly discovered deformed atomic nuclei. When top research teams collaborate, ...

An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the ...

Relying on leading-edge germanium detectors developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National ...

New force distributions revealed by the calculations, on top of the probability map of finding a quark in the proton. Joshua ...

The results confirmed the original anomaly, but thanks to new nuclear theory calculations from researchers at TU Darmstadt, ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

Crisply directed by Andrea James, with simple but stunning design by Isabel Hudson, and similarly inspired lighting by Verity ...

When someone is scared, the body initiates a “fight or flight” response, causing physical changes like increased breathing, ...

Supercomputer simulations have revealed how changes in the shape of the HIV-1 capsid protein may help the virus squeeze its ...