A long-held belief involving lead-208 challenges past beliefs that the element’s atomic nucleus is a perfect sphere.

Quantum computers, which operate leveraging quantum mechanics phenomena, could eventually tackle some optimization and ...

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

Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has ...

When atoms collide, their exact structure—for example, the number of electrons they have or even the quantum spin of their ...