nucleus
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A thoroughly uninflected, completely random space is not natural; after all, even an amoeba has a nucleus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
"Targeting the brain with drugs is tricky because they act on the entire brain and not a selected region such as the parafacial nucleus," says Paton.
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026
All the matter around us -- including the protons and neutrons that make up the nucleus of atoms -- are made of baryons.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
According to Grzywacz, the nucleus begins in an excited state and must release energy to stabilize.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
This model explained quite well the structure of the simplest atom, hydrogen, which has only one electron orbiting around the nucleus.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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