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Researchers say they are alarmed by reports that the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the largest U.S. funder of the physical sciences, is moving to merge its high energy physics and nuclear ...

Welcome to the first Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing bringing you the best of our recent coverage in these two areas, including – of course – plenty on CERN, which is celebrating its 70th ...

The BEam COoler and LAser spectroscopy (BECOLA) facility at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) allows high-precision measurements of nuclear charge distributions. Credit: Kei Minamisono, FRIB.

New research suggests a particle inside an atom can lose mass, offering a fresh look at how matter works at the smallest ...

A major physics experiment has uncovered evidence for a strange new form of matter, where a fleeting particle gets trapped ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science’s most ...

New experiments reveal possible η′-mesic nuclei, offering evidence that particle masses shift inside nuclear matter and ...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Inside the nucleus of the atom, the building blocks of matter are anything but static. Individual particles are in a constant state of energetic motion, like dancers on a dance ...

Physicists have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle smashups. Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...