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

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

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

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

While gluons are responsible for generating most of the visible mass in the universe, their role inside nuclei remains poorly ...

Solving life's great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, ...

Nuclear physics' interdisciplinary progress Theoretical nuclear physics could yield unique insights by extending methods and observations from other research fields Date: May 10, 2016 Source ...

Nuclear physics is so closely interwoven with so much of science and technology, and the social, cultural impact it has had in the last century, that it is interwoven with everything we know and ...