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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

The effect comes from changes in the motion of electrons within their orbitals, regions around an atom's nucleus where electrons have a high probability of being located.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 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

Over a barely digested lunch, the three scientists realized that this intermediate molecule had to shuttle from the cell’s nucleus, where genes were stored, to the cytoplasm, where proteins were synthesized.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Researchers also observed an accumulation of YAP, a protein involved in sensing mechanical forces, inside the nuclei.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Known as active galactic nuclei, these bright and powerful galactic cores can launch jets of particles and enormous outbursts that influence conditions across their host galaxies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

The potential advantage of nuclear clocks comes from the extraordinary properties of atomic nuclei.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The breakthrough relies on an unusual property of thorium atomic nuclei that scientists have investigated for decades.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The blast also created radioactive atoms—atoms with unstable nuclei that break apart, ejecting particles and rays as they decay.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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

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

"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