For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.

Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

To do this, a player must have accumulated on their Player Mat AT LEAST the number of protons ... as well as the arrangement of protons, neutrons, and electrons. HS-PS-1: Use the periodic table as a ...

The curious minds at What If explore the chaos that would ensue if you swallowed the entire periodic table.

Now, researchers in the US and South Korea have used a neutron beam to differentiate between genuine antique coins and fakes.

These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods. Of these, 11 are essential elements that our bodies need in larger amounts: oxygen, carbon ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space— “free-range” particles never ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

Physicists captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the 'free-range' particles that until now were predicted but never directly ...

For the first time, the extremely neutron-rich hydrogen isotope ⁶H has been produced and measured using an electron ...

MIT scientists have snapped the first-ever images of individual atoms interacting freely in space, making visible the elusive ...