Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It ...

Ohio University’s particle accelerator allows physics students to study and experiment with no limits to their learning.

An experiment carried out at CERN's ISOLDE facility has determined the western shore of a small island of atomic nuclei, where conventional nuclear rules break down.

These days, Tomsk Polytechnic University is hosting celebrations dedicated to the important anniversary date – the 75th ...

Mirror magic: The "cores" of the exotic nuclei oxygen-22 and silicon-22 both resemble that of oxygen-16, with eight protons and eight neutrons. The neutron-rich oxygen isotope contains an additional ...

Over the past 10 years, 159 nuclear engineers from over 20 countries have been trained at Tomsk Polytechnic University under ...

A 1989 experiment offered the promise of nuclear fusion without the need for high temperatures, but this "cold fusion" was quickly debunked. Now, some of the techniques involved have been resurrected ...

Each day of war risks a strike on sites that could scatter radioactive material. Officials say one laboratory near the front ...