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

During those very early moments of the universe, things were extraordinarily hot, and quark-gluon plasma behaves in strange ...

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

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

A Magnetar is one of the most fascinating and terrifying objects in the universe. Known as the most powerful magnet in existence, a magnetar has a magnetic field that is billions of times stronger ...

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

In a groundbreaking study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists from ETH Zurich, in collaboration with teams from ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help ...

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

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

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

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