To understand these bizarre observations, physicists proposed the "nuclear shell model," which draws parallels with the electronic shells used to explain the chemical behavior of atoms. "The idea was ...

Peter Bender, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell will give a talk on “Seeing the Invisible: High-Resolution γ-Ray Spectroscopy of Rare ...

In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in experimental Physics). It took another sixty years for the second woman to become a Physics Nobel Laureate.

Neutrinos are very common fundamental particles included in the Standard Model of particle physics. Measuring their ...

Neutrinos are extremely elusive elementary particles. Day and night, 60 billion of them stream from the sun through every square centimeter of Earth every second, which is transparent to them. After ...