For the first time, a research team from the University of Cologne has observed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, ...

I am pleased to welcome all of you to our 8 th Scientific Forum, a venue that has become one of the highlights of our annual General Conference. 2005 has been declared the World Year of Physics, in ...

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One hundred years after “nuclear isomers” were first discovered, Philip Walker and Zsolt Podolyák pick five examples of these long-lived, excited nuclear states to show why they are so important in ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

Let's talk Einstein and Nuclear Physics. What does E=MC2 actually mean? Why is it useful? It's time for our second to final Physics episode. So, let's talk Einstein and Nuclear Physics. What does ...

We conduct research in experimental nuclear and hadronic physics. Our core research program centers on five areas: Many of our experiments use the intense 12 GeV electron beam at Jefferson Lab in ...

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for ...

That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that described exactly how such a thing could occur and even named it fission.