An early-career physicist mathematically connects timelike and spacelike form factors, opening the door to further insights ...

Neutron stars, the collapsed remnants of massive stars, hold the densest matter in the universe. These cosmic objects are ...

Proposed U.S. space defenses against hypersonic nuclear missiles are unnecessary, impractical and would trigger a dangerous ...

Quantum computers, which operate leveraging quantum mechanics phenomena, could eventually tackle some optimization and ...

Quantum dots are widely used for their ability to emit single photons at specific wavelengths. These photons are created by ...

Called the Lévy walk (or in some cases the Lévy flight) after mathematician Paul Lévy, it is a type of random wandering that ...

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A compact method of detecting neutrinos provides new tests of physics theories and could lead to new reactor-monitoring methods.

Nuclear properties including size, mass, binding energy, electromagnetic moments, parity and statistics; nuclear shell model, collective structure, deformed shell model, radioactive decay law and the ...

South Africa's first black female nuclear scientist, Senamile Masango, a trailblazer who set out to inspire young women, has ...