Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

Abstract: The Rectilinear Steiner Minimum Tree (RSMT) problem is a classical optimization problem with significant applications in various fields, such as VLSI design, network routing, and ...

The process: The study focuses on a radiation-induced process by which weakly bound matter can fall apart, the so-called electron-transfer-mediated decay (ETMD). Given predictions that it efficiently ...

In May 2016, close to the northern border of Switzerland, radiochemist Zeynep Talip suited up for the hot laboratory (Hotlab) at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), where experiments with radioactive ...

Apple has secured a decisive victory in its long-running legal battle with AliveCor, as a US federal appeals court upheld a ruling that changes to its heart rate algorithms were lawful innovation, not ...

As movies have morphed from a vibrant public event into a product we watch on our personal screens, film criticism has also been disrupted thanks to apps like Letterboxd. Fortunately, film critic A. S ...

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Organic carbon decomposition in soil varies significantly and in regional patterns, driven in part by factors such as soil minerals and microbial properties that have been underrepresented in carbon ...

Can HIV cure be achieved in children? Children with HIV face a lifetime of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to suppress HIV replication. While this is one outlook, an HIV cure in children would re-write ...

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Atomic nuclei with neutron numbers near canonical magic values (N ≈ 50, 82, 126) are predicted to exhibit measurable suppression of ...