The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

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A few days ago I wrote about how different measurements of the Hubble parameter gave results that didn't quite agree. It's not the only example of such an experimental disagreement. In fact, one of ...

Protons and neutrons that have briefly paired up in the nucleus have higher-average momentum, leaving less for non-paired nucleons. Researchers have now shown for the first time that this phenomenon ...

HEISENBERG has discussed the hypothesis that the nucleus of an atom is composed of neutrons and protons only, the neutron being regarded as a fundamental entity and not as a combination of an electron ...

If you hit an atom’s nucleus hard enough, it will fall apart. But exactly how it falls apart tells us something about the internal structure of the nucleus and perhaps about the interior of neutron ...

The next time you step on bathroom scales, remember that it’s not your big bone structure or that extra helping of pudding that makes you heavy, it’s the motion of the quarks and gluons buzzing around ...

THE neutron is usually looked upon as an aggregate of a proton and an electron. If it were so, there ought to be a strong tendency for hydrogen atoms to be converted spontaneously into neutrons, and ...

CUDDALORE: The decision by a young Hindu couple, Mohan and Chitra, to name their newborn girl child Yunus as a sign of gratitude to the man who rescued them from their marooned house at Urappakkam, ...