Binding Energy

MIT researchers discovered "neutronic" molecules, in which neutrons can be made to cling to quantum dots, held just by the strong force. The finding may lead to new tools for probing material properties at the quantum level and exploring new kinds of quantum information processing devices.

We all know the universe contains a vast array of elements, ranging from light gases, such as helium, to heavy metals, like lead. But where did all of the...

New book details Stephen Hawking's final thoughts on the origin of time and the cosmos.

Summarizing ten thousand years of future history.

Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO) through an electrochemical reaction holds strong potential for removing CO2 from the atmosphere to reduce pollution and for producing alternative energy with carbon monoxide as an ingredient.

Metaphorically and literally, humans are also made of stuff produced from stars and galaxies. Find out how scientists tried to cook this stuff!

As the Event Horizon Telescope pursues ambitious upgrades, the project's latest results reveal the magnetic fields around our galaxy's supermassive black hole

Aurélien Barrau reviews the recent disappointing results from the Large Hadron Collider. Without any sign of new physics, without any confirmation of popular theories such as supersymmetry, the field needs to be fundamentally reconsidered.

Howard Morland reflects on secrecy, the H-Bomb, and The Progressive Case

The article aims to answer the question "At what height is water like concrete?". It will also discuss the science behind what makes water so hard that it

Superatomic molecules containing noble metal elements like gold and silver are studied for their potential in the synthesis of superatomic materials. However, the understanding of silver-based superatomic molecules has been limited. Addressing this gap, researchers from Japan studied two bimetallic superatomic molecules with silver as a main constituent to determine the key factors that enabled their formation.…

Dibaryons are the subatomic particles made of two baryons. Their formations through baryon-baryon interactions play a fundamental role in big-bang nucleosynthesis, in nuclear reactions including those within stellar environments, and provide a connection between nuclear physics, cosmology and astrophysics.

Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?

QSimulate rigorously integrates quantum mechanics with free energy calculations to accelerate drug discovery.

This study was led by Dr. Yang Hu (Institute of Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, the Technical University of Denmark) and Dr. Qing-Feng Li (Institute of Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark).

Three natural phenolic compounds are found to bind to an allosteric site in SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease and exhibit antiviral activity in vitro, showing potential as starting scaffolds for drug design.

A rare spectroscopy technique performed at Swinburne University of Technology directly quantifies the energy required to bind two excitons together, providing for the first time a direct measurement of the biexciton binding energy in WS2.

They know tungsten works, but they'll be testing 20 more, including diamonds, graphite, and more.

By nudging a thorium-229 nucleus into a higher energy state, physicists have made it possible to develop a nuclear clock that could probe the most fundamental forces in physics. However, there is still a long way to go.

Scientists at MIT have found that neutrons can actually be made to cling to particles called quantum dots, which are made up of tens of thousands of atomic nuclei, held there just by the strong force.