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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Simply put, molar mass is the mass of one mole of a substance. A mole is a unit for counting particles in chemistry, typically measured in terms of Avogadro’s number, which is 6.022 x 10^23 particles ...

Physicists have unveiled a new type of time crystal that is governed by quantum behavior that conflicts with classical models. Quantum connections between particles maintain the regular movements of ...

A single speck of light—captured inside a lab at Oxford—turned the abstract into the tangible. It didn’t just win a prize; it ...

Researchers from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and CIBER-BBN, in collaboration with teams from the ...

Making electrons flow like a liquid is difficult, but inside graphene researchers forced them to move so fast that they ...