Nuclear physics articles from across Nature Portfolio 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 ...

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

Nuclear physics models have traditionally struggled to unify descriptions of binding energies and charge radii across the nuclear chart due to the complexity of nuclear interactions. Using a ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help ...

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.

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

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

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

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

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

Firefinch has snapped up Jonathan Black’s The Secret History of the Universe, a "character-driven history of mysticism and ...