University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...

Highly charged heavy ions form a very suitable experimental field for investigating quantum electrodynamics (QED), the ...

For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the ...

A research has developed a method to detect harmful heavy metals through a selective catalytic double metal single atom ... structure (XAFS) spectroscopy, along with coordination field theory ...

They have demonstrated that nuclear polarisation does not impede the study of muonic atoms. It clears a major obstacle that ...

I began graduate study in 1975, the midpoint of the first 100 years of quantum mechanics, 50 years ago and 50 years after the ...

Atomic structure - AQA Atoms consist of a nucleus containing protons and neutrons, surrounded by electrons in shells. The numbers of subatomic particles in an atom can be calculated from its ...

An atom is so small that a single drop of water contains more than a billion atoms. Although tiny, atoms are mostly empty space. The simplified model of the atom is that of a cloud of negative ...

The team's findings, published in the journal Physical Review X, advance knowledge of both the structure of the nucleus itself at the atomic level ... a computational model that captures a variety ...