A new chart for highly charged ions (HCIs) has been proposed, aiming to replicate the conventional periodic table’s ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more ...

A long-standing law of thermodynamics turns out to have a loophole at the smallest scales. Researchers have shown that quantum engines made of correlated particles can exceed the traditional ...

Different atoms and ions possess characteristic energy levels. Like a fingerprint, they are unique for each species. Among ...

More than 40 researchers from international institutes collaborated to develop and implement a method that enables measurements with unprecedented precision. This sets new standards for theories and ...

Nuclear physics is the branch of science that examines the properties and behaviour of atomic nuclei, the densely packed assemblies of protons and neutrons held together by the strong interaction.

Our account of the strong nuclear force is full of imaginative terms. Six flavors of quarks have color charges of red, green and blue, which dictate how they bind to form particles like protons and ...

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Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...

For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

Nuclear and plasma physics form complementary pillars in our understanding of the fundamental forces and states of matter. Nuclear physics investigates the structure, dynamics and interactions of ...