There are scientific explanations for this, including theories about layers of particles in the nucleus, and “magic numbers” of protons and neutrons that may be stable in combination. If we can find ...

Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.

Black Ops 6 Season 5 offered a boatload of content at launch, from new weapons like the ABR A1 to the arrival of 6v6 maps like W.M.D. and Exchange. However, the Reckoning may be the biggest addition ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how ...

New simulations show that neutrino flavor transformations change both the composition and the signals left behind after neutron star collisions. When two neutron stars collide and merge, the result is ...

Baryons are the class of subatomic particles that includes protons and neutrons, the basic building blocks of atoms ... In the 1990s, scientists analyzed the elements created by the Big Bang and ...

As a science reporter for the New York Times, Katrina Miller writes about the universe and how the pursuit of understanding ...

Measuring boron in the single cell may uncover new trails in the treatment that uses neutrons and drug discovery for head and neck cancer therapy.

Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

Earth's mantle is a restless, enigmatic engine that powers volcanism, recycles crust, and regulates the long-term evolution ...

Piefer’s 50-year forecast seems a long way off, but progress shown by SHINE and NorthStar means the future is here in the sense that isotopes produced by both companies are already treating patients ...