Israel’s ambassador to France Joshua Zarka said Israeli strikes killed at least 14 physicists and nuclear engineers, top ...

PARIS (AP) — Israel’s tally of the war damage it wrought on Iran includes the targeted killings of at least 14 scientists, an ...

Israel has openly acknowledged its military campaign targeting Iran's nuclear program, which involved the assassination of at ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...

A force that couples electrons and neutrons could be an addition to the Standard Model, and a new study places an upper limit ...

An international research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has measured the radius of the nucleus of muonic helium-3 with unprecedented precision. The results are an important stress ...

Why saying who was first to split the atom is almost as hard as mastering atomic theory. ... A simple model of an atom shows a nucleus orbited by a number of electrons. In 1803, ...

Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday was peppered with many falsehoods — but the new president’s claim that the United States split the atom is one that caused international irritation ...

But there is a bit of a problem, in that the two descriptions of the nucleus of an atom don't sit too well together. Physicists gain knowledge of atomic nuclei largely by bombarding them with ...