• Atomic nucleus
  Atomic nucleus
  The nucleus is the very dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom. It was discovered in 1911, as a result of Ernest Rutherford's interpretation of the famous 1909 Rutherford experiment performed by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of Rutherford. The...
  
  , the very dense region at the center of an atom
• Cell nucleus
  Cell nucleus
  In cell biology, the nucleus is a membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells. It contains most of the cell's genetic material, organized as multiple long linear DNA molecules in complex with a large variety of proteins, such as histones, to form chromosomes. The genes within these...
  
  , the control center of a cell, which contains the cell's chromosomal DNA
• Nucleus (neuroanatomy)
  Nucleus (neuroanatomy)
  In neuroanatomy, a nucleus is a brain structure consisting of a relatively compact cluster of neurons. It is one of the two most common forms of nerve cell organization, the other being layered structures such as the cerebral cortex or cerebellar cortex. In anatomical sections, a nucleus shows up...
  
  , a cluster of neurons in the central nervous system
• Nucleus (syllable), the central part of a syllable in linguistics
• Comet nucleus
  Comet nucleus
  The nucleus is the solid, central part of a comet, popularly termed a dirty snowball. A cometary nucleus is composed of rock, dust, and frozen gases. When heated by the Sun, the gases sublimate and produce an atmosphere surrounding the nucleus known as the coma...
  
  , the solid, central part of a comet

Computer systems

• Nucleus CMS
  Nucleus CMS
  Nucleus CMS is an open-source blog management software package written in PHP, with a MySQL backend, primarily written and maintained by Wouter Demuynck. It is used to manage frequently-updated Web content...
  
  , a weblog system
• Nucleus RTOS
  Nucleus RTOS
  Nucleus OS is a real-time operating system and toolset created by the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics for various central processing unit platforms. Nucleus OS is an embedded software solution and is in an estimated 2.11 billion devices worldwide.Development is typically done on a...
  
  , an operating system
• Nucleus, a pioneering facility for the GEC 4000 series

Other uses

• Nucleus (advocacy group)
  Nucleus (advocacy group)
  Nucleus is a British-European advocacy group, based in London, but with additional operations in Brussels.Founded in 2010, Nucleus promotes a 'euro-realist' British approach to European political and business affairs...
  
  , a UK-European political advocacy campaign organisation
• Nucleus (band)
  Nucleus (band)
  Nucleus were a pioneering jazz-rock band from Britain who continued in different forms from 1969 to 1989. In their first year they won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released the album Elastic Rock, and performed both at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Village Gate jazz club.They were...
  
  , a British jazz-rock band led by Ian Carr
• Nucleus (video game)
  Nucleus (video game)
  Nucleus is a downloadable game on the PlayStation Store, also known as Bacterius on the Japanese PSN.-Gameplay:Nucleus is a puzzle-based shooting game with a dual stick control system similar to Robotron: 2084...
  
  , a 2007 downloadable game on the PlayStation Store
• Nucleus (Anekdoten album)
  Nucleus (Anekdoten album)
  Nucleus is the second full-length studio album by the Swedish progressive rock band Anekdoten. The album was released in 1995.- Track list :# "Nucleus"# "Harvest"# "Book of Hours" a) Pendulum Swing / b) The Book# "Raft"# "Rubankh"# "Here"...
  
  , 1995
• Nucleus (Sonny Rollins album), 1975
• Nucleus Limited
  Nucleus Limited
  Nucleus Limited began as a private company in Sydney, Australia, in 1965. It was founded by former Watson-Victor executive Paul Murray Trainor, after acquisition of X-ray sales & service company Scientific & General....
  
  , an Australian medical research company, taken over by Pacific Dunlop in 1988
• Nucleus, predecessor to Canadian rock band A Foot in Coldwater
  A Foot in Coldwater
  A Foot in Coldwater is a Canadian rock band initially composed of Alex Machin , Bob Horne , Paul Naumann , Danny Taylor , and Hughie Leggat...
  
  

See also

• Nuclear (disambiguation)
• Nucleation
  Nucleation
  Nucleation is the extremely localized budding of a distinct thermodynamic phase. Some examples of phases that may form by way of nucleation in liquids are gaseous bubbles, crystals or glassy regions. Creation of liquid droplets in saturated vapor is also characterized by nucleation...
  
  
• Nucleic acid
  Nucleic acid
  Nucleic acids are biological molecules essential for life, and include DNA and RNA . Together with proteins, nucleic acids make up the most important macromolecules; each is found in abundance in all living things, where they function in encoding, transmitting and expressing genetic information...
  
  
• Nucleolus
  Nucleolus
  The nucleolus is a non-membrane bound structure composed of proteins and nucleic acids found within the nucleus. Ribosomal RNA is transcribed and assembled within the nucleolus...