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This property is crucial because it allows researchers to control the energy state of a nucleus with a laser, something that is not possible in the same way for most other atomic nuclei.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

On the rare occasions when a neutrino strikes an atomic nucleus, it produces fast-moving charged particles.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

They have much more complicated cells featuring a nucleus and other specialized structures such as organelles which perform specific jobs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

There are no guarantees in golf, but in Woad, Nadaud, Lopez Ramirez and Rhodes Europe appear to have an exciting nucleus for the trophy defence at Valhalla in 2028.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

And the Mutual served as the nucleus for virtually all other black enterprises in Durham.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

What once appeared to require collisions between massive nuclei can now be investigated through much smaller systems, giving researchers new opportunities to explore the behavior of matter under extraordinary conditions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

This reduction is consistent with particles losing energy inside quark–gluon plasma and provides further evidence that the exotic material can form in collisions involving lighter nuclei.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Traditionally, researchers have accomplished this by accelerating gold nuclei to enormous speeds and crashing them into one another.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

When two such nuclei collide with sufficient energy, the boundaries of their protons and neutrons effectively break down, releasing the quarks and gluons inside them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Three helium nuclei make a carbon nucleus; four, oxygen; five, neon; six, magnesium; seven, silicon; eight, sulfur; and so on.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Hall, Price, and Kelsey headed in with straggling wagons to form the nucleuses of their columns; but the morning wore on and the Missourians, now under Woodhull, had not yet broken park.

From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

"Gee whiz, nucleuses aren't so easy to be, that's one thing," Pee-wee muttered to himself as he bent his aimless way in the direction of Barrel Alley.

From Pee-Wee Harris Adrift by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Many words ending in us that formerly were written with only the Latin plural, are now given an English plural also; as, focuses, foci; cactuses, cacti; sarcophaguses, sarcophagi; convolvuluses, convolvuli ; funguses, fungi; nucleuses, nuclei.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel

"So far I have done nothing but nucleuses," said Olive, as they sat down.

From The Captain's Toll-Gate by Frank Richard Stockton

She saw him start a dozen nucleuses of fires; saw them advance till they halted at the edge of the burned ground, beyond the wagon, so that it stood safe in a vast black island.

From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough