nucleus
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The second discovery involved paraspeckles, small droplet-like compartments located inside the cell nucleus.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
They are integrating AI agents into existing super apps or trying to turn popular AI chatbots into the nucleus of new everything apps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Helium-3 is an isotope of helium, defined by the number of neutrons in the atom's nucleus.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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 neutron star at the center of the Crab Nebula is an immense atomic nucleus, about the size of Manhattan, spinning thirty times a second.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
Because of this connection, researchers have generally assumed that observing Purkinje cell activity provides a reliable picture of what is happening in the deep nuclei cells.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026
Atomic nuclei are the compact centers of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 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
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"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
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
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
"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
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