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

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

The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the ...

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

Piefer’s 50-year forecast seems a long way off, but progress shown by SHINE and NorthStar means the future is here in the sense that isotopes produced by both companies are already treating patients ...

The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be ...

Baryons are the class of subatomic particles that includes protons and neutrons, the basic building blocks ... at different types of cosmic objects but couldn't find the missing baryons. Many expected ...

The heaviest elements could have new uses and properties we haven't dreamt of. Many of us remember a time ... and “magic numbers” of protons and neutrons that may be stable in combination. If we can ...

Every day, I open my phone to see new LinkedIn notifications asking me to congratulate former colleagues on their new jobs, more often than not outside the NHS. Not just moving to Australia or New ...