Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have reported important progress in quantum physics and materials ...

Researchers created scalable quantum circuits capable of simulating fundamental nuclear physics on more than 100 qubits. These circuits efficiently prepare complex initial states that classical ...

A Transformative Decision In 1928, shortly after arriving at Cambridge to pursue mechanical engineering, a young man from ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number of protons equals the number of neutrons. For decades, these strange regions ...

Nuclear physics is a research area focused on the structure, dynamics, and interactions of atomic nuclei and their constituent nucleons, governed primarily by the strong and weak nuclear forces within ...

Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become the most precise clock on ...

A person in black gloves holds a small square object while a person in blue gloves pokes it with a pencil-shaped object. Staff at Project Omega handle part of a prototype betavoltaic battery. Credit: ...

Nuclear effect The deformed shape of the ytterbium-173 nucleus (right) makes it possible to excite the clock transition with a relatively low-power laser. The same transition is forbidden (left) if ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Wednesday that it has awarded TerraPower a construction permit for its Natrium nuclear power plant outside Kemmerer, a key step in bringing the ...