Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

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Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

Scientists are using “trapped ions” in highly precise experiments to search for a new, fifth force of nature that could help ...

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

While the Standard Model (SM) describes all known fundamental particles and many of the interactions between them, it fails ...

Two Los Alamos Laboratory scientists discovered Arthur Ruhlig’s major contributions to fusion physics, and they did so ...

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...

A five-dimensional model has successfully predicted the asymmetric fission of mercury isotopes, offering new insights into ...

New standards in nuclear physics. An international research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has measured the radius of the nucleus of muonic helium-3 with unprecedented precision.

By carefully steering atomic nuclear spins, researchers found a way to store and retrieve quantum information without ...