Nuclear clocks are a technology researchers have been working toward for decades. New research in theoretical physics brings them closer to reality.

This video explores the fundamental components of an atom, including protons, neutrons, and electrons, challenging the ...

Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting ...

Last year, a UCLA-led team accomplished something scientists have been trying to do for 50 years. They made radioactive thorium nuclei absorb and ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

XRISM's Xtend telescope records the first X-ray glow from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing how alien material interacts ...

Understanding The Quantum Of Energy What Is A Quantum Of Energy? So, what exactly is a quantum of energy? Think of it like ...

The Beatles' song Yesterday was written in what psychologists refer to as the "hypnagogic state." This is the twilight zone ...

Why does changing just one proton in the nucleus of an atom create a different element? The number of protons in an atomic ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

Columbia physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi discovered nuclear magnetic resonance in the 1930s. Today, it lets doctors look inside ...