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

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

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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 ...

In alchemy, a theory exists about altering the nature of metals through changes in their composition, prominently featuring the legendary philosopher’s stone. But can one truly ... Continue Reading → ...

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Researchers find that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an excited atomic state while passing through a cloud ...