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

A technology once feared too error-prone to underlie a quantum computer is hitting the big time.

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When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

British philosopher Bertrand Russell said of the difference between our physical world experience and the scientific world of continually changing matter, “There is … some conflict between what common ...

Electrons have a hidden feature — spin — that could revolutionize technology. Magnets can control it, but researchers are now exploring chiral molecules as an alternative. These uniquely shaped ...

But each unit is slightly twisted relative to this adjacent magnetic atom, resulting in some ferromagnetic ... However, because electrons possess both a quantum spin and a magnetic moment ...

Fukuoka, Japan – Researchers from Kyushu University, Japan have revealed how a special type of force within an atom’s nucleus ... also spin and move in an orbit within the nucleus.

Here’s how it works. The term "perihelion" describes the point in an astronomical body's orbit where it is nearest to the sun. Derived from the Greek words peri (around) and helios (sun), the ...

A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Some ...

The size of an atom is only a few angstroms at most - there are 10 billion angstroms in 1 metre. This video also looks at the basic parts of an atom (protons, neutrons and electrons) and why the ...