Taken from the March 2021 issue of Physics World, where it first appeared under the headline "Rethinking nuclear for a greener planet" Troels Schönfeldt, co-founder and chief executive of Danish start ...

Matter is a lush tapestry, woven from a complex assortment of threads. Diverse subatomic particles weave together to fabricate the universe we inhabit. But a century ago, people believed that matter ...

The study of atomic nuclei is by now a very active and developed field, with both fundamental and technological implications. Its more fundamental spin-off, particle physics, while constantly refining ...

A new study published in Physical Review D titled, "Extending the Bridge Connecting Chiral Lagrangians and QCD Gaussian Sum-Rules for Low-Energy Hadronic Physics," offers significant advancements in ...

Symmetry writer Mike Perricone’s favorite physics books of 2020 cover an impressive span of time: from the very beginning of our universe until the very end. How do the questions Galileo faced in the ...

Scientists who moved from particle physics or astrophysics to medical physics sit down with Symmetry to talk about life, science and career changes. “I wasn’t one of those people who grew up knowing ...

An experimental technique that started life in nuclear and particle physics is now being used to measure chemical reactions inside the human body and to help diagnose cancer and heart disease in ...

Thanks to new research, we now know with much greater certainty the nuclear magnetic moments of francium atoms. Thanks to researchers from The University of Queensland, we now know with much greater ...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Inside the nucleus of the atom, the building blocks of matter are anything but static. Individual particles are in a constant state of energetic motion, like dancers on a dance ...