Subtle quantum effects within atomic nuclei can dramatically affect how some nuclei break apart. By studying 100 isotopes ...

An international team of scientists has identified an unexpected region of heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes in the nuclear chart where nuclear fission is predominantly governed by an asymmetric mode.

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

The bookmakers may back him but Cardinal Parolin will be well aware of an old Italian saying that stresses the uncertainty of the pope-picking process: "He who enters a conclave as a pope ...

A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday said that a 2-year-old U.S. citizen appears to have been taken with her mother to Honduras with no meaningful due process. In an order scheduling a hearing ...

including some that would change the association’s petition process. The amendments were presented on April 16 in a presidential package from the outgoing Student Government Association ...

A non-binary Canadian's $70,000 gender affirming surgery - that will see her keep her penis and get a vagina constructed - will be fully funded by taxpayers, a top judge ruled. K.S., who was ...

Nuclear reactors already in operation around the world create energy by forcing radioactive elements to undergo a process called fission. During this process, the element breaks down into smaller ...

In the afternoon, the cardinals process into the Sistine Chapel and take their seats. A priest delivers a meditation and the cardinals take an oath. After the “Extra Omnes,” the conclave begins.

What Is a Conclave? What to Know About the Secretive Process to Elect the Next Pope VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian ...

Instead, my brain was struggling to process the sounds. Several months after the kebabs incident, I was diagnosed with auditory processing disorder (APD). My audiologist once described it as ...