nucleus

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 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

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

Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus is already an established therapy for easing motor symptoms in people with Parkinson's disease.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

Over time, they formed the nucleus of a tight circle of friends: Sasha, Healy, Michael, Michael’s girlfriend, Teah, and another friend named Ian.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

Physicists have been trying to understand the shapes and internal structures of atomic nuclei for more than 70 years.

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

Traditionally, physicists have investigated nuclear structure using relatively low-energy experiments, including measurements of how atomic nuclei rotate and vibrate.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Why, as Arthur Eddington liked to ask, do the nuclei that comprise my elbow not slide effortlessly through the nuclei that comprise the table?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"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

"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

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