For the first time, researchers have reported a 3D metal-organic framework (MOF) that can conduct both electrons and protons (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c13792). Materials mixing ...

For example, baryons, such as protons and neutrons, are combinations of three quarks bound tightly together by strong force-carrying gluons. When individual quarks are ripped from hadrons ...

We have a much more complicated, dynamic system." Scientists have used high-energy particle collisions to peer inside protons, the particles that sit inside the nuclei of all atoms. This has ...

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match the low isotopic ratios (below 0.07) from France's nuclear tests.

Those charges alone will get someone locked up for quite a long time—throw in another conviction for trying to offload thousands of pounds of uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, and it’s ...

Why Trust Us? Thought to be caused by plasma instabilities, chorus waves—which can propel electrons to deadly speeds—typically occur due to the unstable distribution of electrons along ...

A Japanese Yakuza leader has pleaded guilty to attempting to traffic weapons-grade plutonium for Iran’s nuclear weapons programme. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, faces life in prison after entering the ...

That matters greatly to science: neutrons, the electrically neutral particles that sit alongside positively charged protons in the ... advantages over X-rays and electrons, such as being non ...

Electrons gently tug on protons in the lattice, drawing them inward to create an excess of positive charge. That deformation, known as a phonon, can then draw in a second electron, forming a ...

The reason is that the two isotopes of this superheavy element, absent in nature, resulted from an unprecedented union: that of plutonium-244 (Z=94 ... could unlock the quest for nuclei with even more ...

Not far away, Funk is clearing another tunnel for a second machine, called Zeus, that will bombard the plutonium with subatomic particles known as neutrons. The neutrons will show how plutonium ...