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

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

X-ray beams aren't used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell whether you have a broken bone. More powerful beams ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by using a titanium beam to irradiate a sample, could point toward the ...

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

An unknot (also known as the trivial knot) can be drawn with any number of crossings. Any possible manipulation of a knot ...

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for ...

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...

Astronomers were astonished to find an abundance of phosphine, a molecule produced by microbes on Earth, in the atmosphere of ...