Who could imagine a world without plasma TV screens? Or a blood test without measurements of key electrolytes, sodium, and ...
Scientists have succeeded in maintaining an "artificial sun" here on Earth for a whopping 17 minutes and 46 seconds.
Scientists have reached a significant milestone in nuclear physics with the direct observation of three distinct deformations ...
Mehen, 54, died Dec. 29 at his home in Chapel Hill. He is remembered as a "brilliant theoretical physicist" and a "great ...
Nuclear physics research is focused on understanding the matter composed of quarks and gluons, which makes up 99% of the mass of the universe. Most of this matter is found at the core of atoms, the ...
That at least is the case with the strong nuclear force, one of four fundamental ... for which all three shared the 2004 Nobel prize in physics. Meantime, QCD remains a fiendishly difficult ...
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