Solving life's great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ...

Solving the nuclear many-body problem is a key challenge in nuclear physics – it deals with understanding the behavior of the protons and neutrons (called nucleons) inside atomic nuclei. These ...

AMES, Iowa – Let’s see, thought James Vary, how can we have a little fun with the name of our $1 million nuclear physics project? Hmm, can we work in the term hack? So, it’s “Nuclei and Hadrons with ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

13 projects will receive funding over the course of three years, all of which apply quantum technology to solving nuclear physics problems. Federal funding initiatives for quantum technology research ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $9.1 million in funding for 13 projects in Quantum Information Science (QIS) with relevance to nuclear physics. Nuclear physics ...

Jan. 26, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $9.1 million in funding for 13 projects over three years in Quantum Information Science (QIS) with relevance to nuclear physics.

Scientists claim to have made yet another step towards the ultimate goal of achieving nuclear fusion, by partially solving an outstanding problem in the field: heat loss. The rest of this article is ...

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