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

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

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

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have ...

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 ...

An element's atomic number defines it. An element with 17 protons will always be chlorine. However an element's mass numbers can vary, which means that it can have different numbers of neutrons. So ...

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

Explore the crazy implications of a universe where protons never decay! From eternal atoms to the degenerate era, this video dives deep into the distant future of everything.

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

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...

Everything around us is built from sets of chemical elements. From the air we breathe to the jewelry we wear. All of these ...