Quantum physics is usually associated with particle colliders and vacuum chambers, not with the proteins quietly shuttling ...

Atomic nuclei are often described as orderly systems. Certain numbers of protons or neutrons, called magic numbers, usually produce especially stable and spherical nuclei. These numbers fill entire ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

IN THE world of particle physics, there is no such thing as nothing. Particles of matter, and their anti-matter counterparts, are forever flitting in and out of existence. Theorists have predicted ...

The proton, one of the fundamental building blocks of matter, has been sent through the looking glass. For the first time, physicists have measured how it is affected by the weak force, the only ...