Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what ...

The physicist who headed the Soviet nuclear program from 1943 until his death in 1960, was also remembered by the scientists who worked for him as a man with a robust sense of humor; a warm and ...

For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

Nuclear physicists performed the largest digital quantum simulation to date using IBM’s quantum computers. Symmetries and hierarchies in length scales of physical systems aided in the discovery ...

Einstein’s famous letter was sent soon after ... In April 1940 the government appointed the veteran physicist Arthur Compton to head a nuclear weapons programme, which eventually became the ...