Three-nucleon force affects nuclear stability, impacting element formation and stellar evolution. The force increases energy ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Random number generation is a key part of cybersecurity and encryption, and it is applied to many apps used in everyday life, ...

Particle detectors play a crucial role in our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. They allow ...

By bombarding thorium with neutrons, activities are obtained which have been ascribed to radium and actinium isotopes 8. Some of these periods are approximately equal to periods of barium and ...

Groundwater is water stored beneath the Earth's surface in the spaces between rocks and sediments, collectively known as aquifers.

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states – solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact many more phases, some of which – predicted to exist at high temperature ...

Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions that hold them together in a space just a few femtometres (10-15 metres) across. Example ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a highly sensitive sensor ...

If Oregon’s recent cold snap has you shivering, and the ice and snow in the forecast seem unusual, take solace. The state climatologist feels it too — even when he’s looking at data that ...