In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

Magic numbers" in nuclear physics identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

Fifty experts on nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics met at CERN from 9 to 13 June to discuss how to use ...

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

The team suggests that if there are small mountains on pulsars, China’s FAST (Five- hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Neutron stars are among the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe. Born from the explosive deaths of massive stars in supernovae, these dense stellar remnants pack more mass than our ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

The current AI race has reached a bottleneck that can be relieved only by new sources of electrical generation. Read more ...