A physicist explains how atoms arrange themselves into molecules – and how scientists are able to image these tiny bits of ...

Scientists at the PHENIX experiment at RHIC have uncovered compelling evidence that even collisions involving small nuclei ...

Researchers from Kyushu University, Japan have revealed how a special type of force within an atom's nucleus, known as the ...

Once a year, the Large Hadron Collider smashes lead ions. But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator ...

Researchers from Kyushu University, Japan have revealed how a special type of force within an atom’s nucleus, known as the three-nucleon force, impacts nuclear stability. The study, published in ...

Researchers discovered rutherfordium-252, the shortest-lived superheavy nucleus, refining the "island of stability" map and ...

The size of an atom is only a few angstroms at most - there are 10 billion angstroms in 1 metre. This video also looks at the ...

Theoretical physicist James D Bjorken, whose work played a key role in revealing the existence of quarks, passed away on ...

Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe ...

Experimental observations of the half life of rutherfordium-252 demonstrate that its stability lies well within the limits ...

There are striking similarities between how elementary particles come together to form atoms, molecules and eventually ...

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...