Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...

Leah Broussard, a research scientist in the Physics Division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has ...

Physicists working with molybdenum-84, a nucleus containing exactly 42 protons and 42 neutrons, have found that this seemingly balanced atom defies one of nuclear physics’ longest-standing ...

Nuclear Museum appoints world-renowned nuclear physicist and educator to Board of Trustees. I am excited to use my ...

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest ...

In 1939, German scientists Otto Hahn (later a Nobel laureate in Chemistry) and Fritz Strassmann discovered the effect of ...

Early-career physicist Natasha Khan talks about her route to becoming a nuclear safety engineer – a journey that includes job rejections, the charity sector and nuclear awards ...

Nuclear physics is a research area focused on the structure, dynamics, and interactions of atomic nuclei and their constituent nucleons, governed primarily by the strong and weak nuclear forces within ...

The 1998 sci-fi classic Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster got one thing right – we really could nuke an ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

The nuclear physics research group at the University of Surrey is seeking an outstanding doctoral student candidate to join its internationally renowned program of nuclear reaction studies. This ...