In 2024, TU Wien presented the world's first nuclear clock. Now it has been demonstrated that the technology can also be used to investigate unresolved questions in fundamental physics. Thorium atomic ...

Researchers from Kyushu University, Japan have revealed how a special type of force within an atom's nucleus, known as the three-nucleon force, impacts nuclear stability. The study, published in ...

19-Mar-2026 9:30 PM EDT, by Argonne National Laboratory Newswise — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, “It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun ...

New research is challenging the scientific status quo on the limits of the nuclear chart in hot stellar environments where temperatures reach billions of degrees Celsius. New research is challenging ...

ORNL’s Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri and team studied doubly magic tin-132 — especially stable because it takes more energy to remove a proton or a neutron than neighboring isotopes need. Separated by an ...

China’s experimental nuclear clock has emerged as the more stable of the world’s first two working devices. Researchers at Tsinghua University found their clock ran about six times more steadily than ...

Adding what seems like too many protons to a nucleus can increase one measure of its stability. Understanding the causes of nuclear instability is essential for studies of the astrophysical processes ...

The looming prospect of the United States facing two peer nuclear adversaries raises serious questions about whether significant changes to U.S. nuclear strategy and forces are necessary, and whether ...