Atomic clocks have long been the gold standard for measuring time and frequency. Among them, optical clocks—using atoms like ...

University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...

T he atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by gluons. It would seem, therefore, that it should not be difficult to ...

In a National Science Review perspective, the research progress and future challenges of nuclear optical clocks are presented ...

Scientists have acquired direct evidence of rare, pulsing pear-shaped structures within atomic nuclei of the rare-earth element Gadolinium, thanks to new research.

The relative charge of a nucleus is the same as its proton (atomic) number. Key fact: isotopes are forms of an element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find ... and positive charge, in a central nucleus about 10,000 times smaller than the atom itself. All of the negative ...

Question: when is a strong force not a strong force? Answer: when it’s anywhere outside the atomic nucleus. That at least is the case with the strong nuclear force, one of four fundamental ...

For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics research, and tests of fundamental theories. But researchers are now pushing ...

A crucial component of this is understanding the behaviour of the electrons that surround the atomic nucleus; these dynamics dominate the way atoms and molecules interact with their environment.

The spectroscopic quadrupole moment measures how much a nucleus deviates from a perfect ... The researchers used Coulomb excitation, a method where atomic nuclei are excited through ...