In particle physics, the weak force is essential for transforming quarks, altering atomic structures, and enabling element ...

Electron antineutrinos are emitted during nuclear beta decay, a type of radioactive decay in which a neutron decays into a ...

Radioactive materials are elements that spontaneously break apart, or “decay,” into lighter elements over time. Radiation is ...

A research team led by researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has ...

Using the fusion evaporation reaction, the researchers synthesized plutonium-227, a very neutron-deficient plutonium isotope, ...

Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory studied a nuclear reaction and measured conditions that can explain how heavy ...

Could dark matter decay have given massive clouds of hydrogen gas the time they needed to birth supermassive black holes seen ...

The strong force that binds quarks together inside protons and neutrons is carried by a boson called the gluon, the ...

Starting at the surface, you would have to dig nearly 2,000 miles before reaching the Earth’s core. No one could survive that ...

The enigmatic Ξ (2030) particle, once thought to consist of three quarks, may actually be a molecular pentaquark – an exotic ...

Antimatter sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it’s very real. The positron—perhaps most famous as what powers the ...

For centuries Christians have attributed a first-century date to the Shroud of Turin. Nuclear engineer Robert Rucker says ...