Thesaurus results for NUCLEUSES

nuclei

noun

variants also nucleuses

plural of nucleus

as in centers

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest a college campus that was a nucleus of opposition to the war

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as in hearts

the central part or aspect of something under consideration the nucleus of the movement's methodology has always been passive resistance

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Recent Examples of nuclei The idea is attractive because atomic nuclei are much smaller and more isolated from the outside world. —

Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026 One natural guess is that galaxies above the critical mass simply lose more of their normal matter to outflows from supernovas and active galactic nuclei. —

Paul Sutter, Space.com, 9 June 2026 This undated microscope image from USC via the NIH shows pancreatic cancer cells, nuclei in blue, growing as a sphere encased in membranes, red. —

CBS News, 31 May 2026 Fusion energy uses light elements, such as hydrogen, and extreme heat to make nuclei collide and fuse, producing a single, heavier atom and massive energy. —

Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 27 May 2026 The building blocks of atomic nuclei, quarks and gluons, floated around loosely in a kind of primordial soup. —

Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026 These nuclei are extremely well conserved across different species through evolution, all the way from lampreys to humans. —

Literary Hub, 13 May 2026 The Metabolic Nucleus Nearly all the different cell types in your body — liver cells, heart cells, skin cells, beta cells, and so on — contain the same genome in their nuclei. —

Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025 In its earliest days, the Universe was a hot, dense soup of subatomic particles, including hydrogen and helium nuclei, aka baryons. —

Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025

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Where to donate blood or platelets Here are the permanent American Red Cross blood and platelet donation centers in the Sacramento area, but the organization also hosts blood drives throughout the region.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2026
General Atomics already operates the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, one of the leading magnetic-fusion research centers in the United States.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026