Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

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Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help unravel the mystery of dark matter. The Standard Model of particle physics o ...

India's National Quantum Mission aims to achieve quantum supremacy through theoretical brilliance and mission execution, much ...

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

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

Explore open-access research on nuclear physics in astronomy, covering topics such as stellar nucleosynthesis, neutron stars, and cosmic element formation.

Jiwi embarks on a quirky yet insightful experiment to balance books in more ways than one testing physical equilibrium and ...

EU-funded researchers are using AI to transform nuclear technology, making medical scans safer, streamlining nuclear plant ...

Richard Crane, Arthur Ruhlig’s thesis advisor, with the University of Michigan accelerator used for experiments. Photo ...