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

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

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

Two German physicists have reimagined how to create powerful and uniform magnetic fields using compact permanent magnets. By ...

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.

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

Two German physicists have unveiled a compact magnet layout that outperforms the famed Halbach array, delivering stronger, ...

When two hydrogen nuclei are close, even for this short duration, Gregori said, "the strong but short-range attractive nuclear force dominates over the tendency of like charges to repel, ...

Hydrogen fusion works in the opposite way by forming “paperbag” nuclei out of smaller units. Deuterium (heavy hydrogen), for instance, has one proton and one neutron in its nucleus.

Slam hydrogen nuclei together into helium and a bit of the original mass is converted into energy. In the core of the Sun, that energy mostly radiates into empty space, with a miniscule ...

In laboratories, coaxing hydrogen nuclei to fuse into helium requires creating and confining a “plasma”—an electrically charged gas, where electrons are no longer bound to atomic nuclei—at ...