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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

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

Jenny Lê, the flagship’s head of operations, has become the nucleus of the store, embodying the essence of discipline, intention and collaboration that has been there from the very beginning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

It was Ernest’s destiny to begin his career at a moment when physics had hit a brick wall in its understanding of the atomic nucleus.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

By using atomic nuclei as exceptionally stable references, nuclear clocks could eventually allow scientists to measure time and other physical quantities with levels of accuracy that existing technologies cannot reach.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

They demonstrated for the first time that laser beams could excite thorium nuclei.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

"The great advantage of the new nuclear clock in Vienna is that, if you use atomic nuclei rather than atoms, much higher precision is possible in principle," says Thorsten Schumm.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Three helium nuclei make a carbon nucleus; four, oxygen; five, neon; six, magnesium; seven, silicon; eight, sulfur; and so on.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

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

"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