nucleus

The nucleus contains a cell's DNA and plays a central role in regulating gene activity.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

If proteins needed for regeneration remain in the cytoplasm rather than reaching the nucleus, they may be present in normal amounts but unable to perform their intended jobs.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Aage Bohr received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 for his work on the structure of the atomic nucleus.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Next, we monitored the activity of a particular collection of cells in a portion of the brain known as the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, or BNST.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

The nucleus was discovered by Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge when some of the bombarding particles were bounced back in the direction from which they had come.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The team therefore plans to conduct additional experiments using even lighter atomic nuclei, including helium-4.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

The new experiments show that much smaller nuclei can also generate the primordial material.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Researchers successfully created it by colliding oxygen-16 and neon-20 nuclei.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Published in Nature, the findings offer new insight into the structure of atomic nuclei and could have important implications for astrophysics, nuclear energy, national security, and nuclear forensics.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Every ten miles along the traveled routes a general store and blacksmith shop happened, and these became the nuclei of little towns, Bradley, King City, Greenfield.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

"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

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

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

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

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

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