Developed by researchers at MIT, the method uses the atom’s own electrons as “messengers” within a molecule to help probe ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

For surfers, it's not enough just to wait for the right wave: they still have to know how to catch it. As it turns out, one challenge faced by surfers also applies to protons. An experiment recently ...

Record breaking Artist’s impression of the decay of a lutetium-149 nucleus into a ytterbium-148 nucleus and a proton. (Courtesy: University of Jyväskylä) Physicists in Finland have created a ...

From a research paper: “Probing Cold Dense Nuclear Matter”: The protons and neutrons in a nucleus can form strongly correlated nucleon pairs. Scattering experiments, where a proton is knocked-out of ...

Inside each proton or neutron there are three quarks bound by gluons. Until now, it has often been assumed that two of them form a "stable" pair known as a diquark. It seems, however, that it's the ...

Findings from physicists working at Europe's Large Hadron Collider are providing new insight about an exotic state of matter called the 'quark-gluon plasma' that occurs when protons and neutrons melt.

Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than ...

A new atomic nucleus 149-Lutetium, consisting of 71 protons and 78 neutrons, has been synthesized in an experiment performed in the Accelerator Laboratory of University of Jyväskylä, Finland.