Separated by an ocean and more than a decade, innovative experiments with 31 tin isotopes having either a surplus or shortage ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

Turning lead into gold famously used to be the goal of ancient alchemists, but their modern counterparts have actually ...

Precious metals may be escaping from the planet’s core. This hotly debated subject could help us understand Earth’s evolution and determine whether life exists elsewhere in the Universe ...

Supernova 1987A appeared in the far-southern constellation of Doradus (the Swordfish), in which the Large Magellanic Cloud is ...

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu, researchers found that they contained amino ...

Scientists have scanned a popular rock from Mars and they found something surprising. The meteorite, known as Black Beauty or ...

This study explores a groundbreaking theoretical method to neutralize high-level radioactive waste using lead oxide (PbO) ...