nucleus

Most familiar human proteins are made from instructions contained in the DNA inside the cell nucleus.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

At its center is an active galactic nucleus, or AGN, where a supermassive black hole is actively consuming material and generating a luminous accretion disk.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026

So the U.S. cleared out its veterans and began building around a nucleus of young players who plied their trade in Europe’s toughest leagues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The roughly 40% of the Las Vegas Strip that MGM owns is “an entertainment nucleus that simply cannot be replicated anywhere in the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

It revealed that an electron orbiting around the nucleus could be thought of as a wave, with a wavelength that depended on its velocity.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

The cluster is a dense collection of galaxies about 145 million light-years from Earth and is considered one of the best places to examine how active galactic nuclei interact with their surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

Fusion requires heating and compressing nuclear fuel to make superheated plasma in which atomic nuclei combine, releasing energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Some of those neutrons then transform into protons, allowing the nuclei to grow larger and eventually form many of the heavy elements found in nature.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

These enormous explosions generate the energy needed to produce heavy atomic nuclei through a process known as rapid neutron capture, or the r-process.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

One fission can quickly become hundreds as neutrons spin off from each split and hit more nuclei.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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 Bechtel, John Hendricks

"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 Fitzhugh, Percy Keese

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

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

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 Hough, Emerson

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 Hough, Emerson