To Unlock Limitless Energy, Scientists Needed a Secret Ingredient—And They May Have Just Found It
The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.
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Physicists unveil atomic nucleus deformation in hunt for dark forces
The international team also used the data to get direct information about the deformation of the atomic nucleus in ytterbium ...
Measuring the size of a neutrino: Physicists suggest it's considerably larger than an atomic nucleus
An international team of physicists has successfully measured the size of a certain type of neutrino to a certain degree. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes ...
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Poorly understood force helps keep atomic nuclei stable
Three-nucleon force affects nuclear stability, impacting element formation and stellar evolution. The force increases energy ...
Scientists directly prove the existence of a nuclear-spin dark state
Quantum computers have the potential to revolutionize technology by solving complex calculations and computations that are ...
Physicists find deformed nuclei when searching for 'dark forces'
When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from ...
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New insights into the structure of atomic nuclei
For almost a century, measurements have indicated that a significant proportion of matter in the universe consists of unknown ...
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Correlated nucleon pairs predict quark-gluon distributions
Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...
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The power of guesswork
When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...
Splitting the atom: Why saying who was first is complex
In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...
Tiny titan: 6-pound detector catches record 400 antineutrinos from nuclear reactor
This is where the Conus+ experiment stands apart. The researchers tested their germanium detector for 119 days and caught 400 ...
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How Small is an Atom?
The size of an atom is only a few angstroms at most - there are 10 billion angstroms in 1 metre. This video also looks at the basic parts of an atom (protons, neutrons and electrons) and why the ...