The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

Google and CFS aren’t alone in their ambitions. Microsoft inked a deal in 2023 to purchase electricity from a nuclear fusion ...

But the way it gets there is complicated. You can never have more than two objects collide-and-react at once; you can't simply put four hydrogen nuclei together and turn them into a helium-4 nucleus.

Hydrogen molecule nuclei image is obtained. HEIDELBERG, Germany, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- German researchers have, for the first time, visualized vibration and rotation in the nuclei of a hydrogen ...

An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter ...

Because an atomic nucleus of helium is 0.7% lighter than the four hydrogen nuclei that it's created from, that act of nuclear fusion releases a tremendously efficient amount of energy.

Clever experiment reveals wavefunction of ionized molecular hydrogen. One of the cool things in this experiment is that you can clearly see the quantum mechanical nature of the motion of the nuclei.

Even when they are in their lowest possible electronic energy level (i.e., the electron's ground state), these two nuclei can still rotate and vibrate, producing a wide range of rovibrational states.

On Earth, elements exist in one of three states: solid, liquid, or gas. The form an element takes depends on its pressure and temperature. While hydrogen is typically a gas on Earth, it can be ...