THIS work combines a comprehensive set of tables of nuclear physics data compiled by J. Mattauch with an introduction to nuclear physics by S. Fluegge. It was first published in Germany in 1941 and ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may make all the difference.

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It ...

A nuclear physics professor from FIU was among a team of researchers that proposed something so out of this world, colleagues first hesitated to accept it was possible. In 1993, they boldly predicted ...

AMES, Iowa – In these days of science-by-supercomputer, Iowa State University physicist Srimoyee Sen still prefers to go about her work with pen and paper. Her research is all about analyzing, ...

Neutrinos are extremely elusive elementary particles. Day and night, 60 billion of them stream from the sun through every square centimeter of Earth every second, which is transparent to them. After ...