An international research collaboration has reported the first experimental evidence that the strongly correlated proton-neutron pairs found in an atomic depend on nuclear structure. The experiment, ...

Materials exposed to neutron radiation tend to experience significant damage. At the nanoscale, these incident neutrons collide with a material's atoms, which then collide with each other. The ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Corning scientists discovered that as the number of smaller, less-stable atomic rings in a glass increases, the instability, or liquid fragility, of the glass also ...

Accelerator-based high-energy electron diffraction determines 3D atomic structure of materials New method using ultrashort ...

(Nanowerk News) When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max ...

Osaka, Japan - The nuclear force that holds protons and neutrons together in the center of atoms has a non-central component -- the tensor force, which depends on the spin and relative position of the ...