There are scientific explanations for this, including theories about layers of particles in the nucleus, and “magic numbers” of protons and neutrons that may be stable in combination. If we can find ...

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

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

The stability of atomic nuclei varies wildly with the number of nuclear ... oxygen-16 (eight protons and eight neutrons), calcium-40 (20 protons and 20 neutrons) and lead-208 (82 protons and 126 ...

Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in ...

Baryons are the class of subatomic particles that includes protons and neutrons ... specifically the number of baryons, is tied to the abundance of different elements. Models like Lambda-CDM predict ...

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

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...

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 ...

In a significant breakthrough for the scientific community, a new element has been confirmed on the periodic table. This ...

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 ...

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 ...