Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.

Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in ...

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

For example, the atomic number of chlorine is 17. Every chlorine atom has 17 protons and 17 electrons. It has 17 positive charges and 17 negative charges, meaning that it is neutral overall. Atoms of ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

Irene Curie was born in Paris, France, in 1897. In an unusual schooling setup, Irene was one of a group of children taught by ...

Researchers from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and CIBER-BBN, in collaboration with teams from the ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how ...