Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.
New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...
An element's atomic number defines it. An element with 17 protons will always be chlorine. However an element's mass numbers can vary, which means that it can have different numbers of neutrons. So ...
Irene Curie was born in Paris, France, in 1897. In an unusual schooling setup, Irene was one of a group of children taught by ...
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More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details ...
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by ...
“The mass and the antiparticle nature of neutrinos can be studied by measuring the radioactive beta and double-beta decays of ...