Tag: nuclear physics
Many stable atoms have ‘magic numbers’ of protons and neutrons −...
Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University and Sean Liddick, Michigan State University
The word magic is not often used in...
How much energy can people create at one time without losing...
Xuejian Wu, Rutgers University - Newark
Curious Kids is a series for children of all...
Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved...
Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University
Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms –...
What has nuclear physics ever given us?
Paul Stevenson, University of Surrey
This year marks the 103rd anniversary of the birth of nuclear physics, when Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden’s...
EXPLORING NATURE
Pregnant women face tough choices about medication use due to lack...
Almut Winterstein, University of Florida and Sonja Rasmussen, Johns Hopkins University
A panel convened in July 2025 by the...
