Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a ...

Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an ...

Until now, physicists thought that all heavy nuclei deformed from spheres are elongated in one direction like rugby balls ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

MIT scientists used radium monofluoride atom to observe electrons entering atomic nuclei, revealing new details of nuclear magnetism.

This image depicts the radium atom’s pear-shaped nucleus of protons and neutrons in the center, surrounded by a cloud of electrons (yellow), and an electron (yellow ball with arrow) that has a ...

This combination of consistent, high-fidelity performance with all-to-all connectivity has led many key demonstrations of ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious. This will happen in the same way it became intelligent. As we interact with increasingly sophisticated A.I., we ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...