Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei. The method is ...

A method to take snapshots of exploding nuclei could hold clues about the fundamental properties of gold, uranium and other ...

Based on an experiment at CERN, a collaboration led by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, can predict hitherto unchartered changes in the shape of nuclei.

Flatter nanocrystals are unexpectedly good at getting ligands to attach to them, which could have applications in electronics ...

While in the real world, we understand physics through math, in the world of video generation, an AI model that understands physics should be able to watch a sequence of frames and then predict which ...

More information: Alexandra Gade et al, In-beam spectroscopy reveals competing nuclear shapes in the rare isotope 62Cr, Nature Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02680-0 ...

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we ...

The researchers have predicted how the shape changes and fluctuations of the colliding nuclei ... The predictions are theoretical but based on an experiment at the world’s leading physics research ...

In a recent paper in Nature Physics, an international research collaboration used world-class instrumentation at the Facility ...

The NSTX-U is the primary nuclear fusion reactor experiment which is ongoing at the US Department of Energy's PPPL.

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...