University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...

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

They have demonstrated that nuclear polarisation does not impede the study of muonic atoms. It clears a major obstacle that ...

1 The electronic structure of sodium can also be shown in a diagram. Each dot represents an electron. Since the atomic number of oxygen is 8, it will have 8 protons in the nucleus. An atom of ...

and the apparently widely different assumptions which have been introduced in various recent attempts to develop a theory of atomic constitution capable of accounting for other physical and ...

The team's findings, published in the journal Physical Review X, advance knowledge of both the structure of the nucleus itself at the atomic level and the behaviors of its subatomic particles.

Scientists have acquired direct evidence of rare, pulsing pear-shaped structures within atomic nuclei of the rare-earth element Gadolinium, thanks to new research.

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find ... and positive charge, in a central nucleus about 10,000 times smaller than the atom itself. All of the negative ...