Known as “islands of inversion,” these regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

Scientists have precisely measured two unstable atomic nuclei that play a crucial role in explosive X-ray bursts on neutron stars. The results reveal faster nuclear reactions than previously thought, ...

ALICE collaboration identifies three-phase process that allows particles to form despite energetically unfavourable ...

For years, physicists have mapped the stability of atomic nuclei with remarkable confidence. The periodic table, with its ...

(Nanowerk News) When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max ...

Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) program rang in the new year with a stunning ...

Atomic nuclei exhibit a complex interplay of structure and dynamics that underpins much of nuclear physics. The arrangement of protons and neutrons into specific configurations gives rise to quantised ...

An international research project has been awarded £215,100 to explore some of the rarest and most unstable forms of matter ...

Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? An international research team reports on experiments performed at the GSI/FAIR ...

The project has received £215,100 from the Royal Society’s International Science Partnership Fund and is a collaboration with ...