Six physicists in the nuclear energy industry talk about their career paths, and how a background in physics can be used across the sector ...

The difference lies in the structure of the atom's nucleus, with certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles making some isotopes especially resistant to radioactive decay. So what are these magic ...

Neutrinos are very common fundamental particles included in the Standard Model of particle physics. Measuring their ...

“The mass and the antiparticle nature of neutrinos can be studied by measuring the radioactive beta and double-beta decays of ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by ...

The Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics conducts cutting-edge research in the field of nuclear, particle, and astroparticle ...

Rutherford's life and his work has been diligently chronicled in a new book by Kiwi author Matthew Wright called Ernest ...

A lead halide material can detect and image single gamma-ray photons with both high-spatial and high-energy resolution ...