In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei. Recognizing these numbers helps scientists better understand the structure ...

Quantum computing and neutron star physics are converging on the same hard problem: how to describe matter when gravity and ...

One star in this neutron star binary system is significantly bigger than the other Before the find, neutron stars in binary systems were thought to have very similar masses The new discovery could ...

For four years, James Chadwick was a prisoner of war in Germany. When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford. Now head ...

A team of physicists led by nuclear physicist Yosuke Kondo of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan has discovered Oxygen-28, a new isotope of Oxygen. Oxygen-28 has the highest number of neutrons ...