Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than ...

Lesya Lytvynova's phone never stops ringing. With one hand she soothes her three-month-old baby, with the other she answers calls from relatives of coronavirus patients desperate to get an oxygen ...

Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Plants in the bean family and other closely related families evolved a symbiotic relationship with bacteria ...

In alchemy, a theory exists about altering the nature of metals through changes in their composition, prominently featuring ...

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China State Key Laboratory of Precious Metal Functional Materials, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China Tianjin ...

The parents of a boy killed in January in a fiery explosion inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber filed a lawsuit Monday, alleging the 5-year-old perished as a result of “corporate greed.” The suit filed ...

State Key Laboratory of Bioinspired Interfacial Materials Science, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...