nucleus
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This capability enabled the team not only to identify gases surrounding the comet's nucleus, but also to map how those gases were distributed around the object.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 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
"The investigations are linked to the nucleus of power which has governed for the past eight years."
From BBC • May 30, 2026
The research team, led by Dominique Langin, discovered that HSL was located in an unexpected place inside adipocytes: the nucleus.
From Science Daily • May 8, 2026
However, in 1932 a colleague of Rutherford’s at Cambridge, James Chadwick, discovered that the nucleus contained another particle, called the neutron, which had almost the same mass as a proton but no electrical charge.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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