TORONTO, September 5, 2019 - York University researchers have made a precise measurement of the size of the proton - a crucial step towards solving a mystery that has preoccupied scientists around the ...

This allows the nuclear radius to be determined with high precision. With the measurement of helium-3, the experiments on light muonic atoms have now been completed for the time being. The researchers ...

Measuring the Sun is tricky business, as direct observations rely on solar eclipses to get an accurate measurement of the Sun’s light-emitting photosphere. However, measurements in the 1990s using ...

Batygin & Brown (2016) suggested the existence of a new planet in our solar system that is supposed to be responsible for the perturbation of eccentric orbits of small outer bodies. The main challenge ...

Researchers have made a precise measurement of the size of the proton -- a crucial step towards solving a mystery that has preoccupied scientists around the world for the past decade. The world's ...