Known as “islands of inversion,” these odd regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...

The 1945 Trinity test produced heat 10,000 times greater than the surface of the sun and spread fallout across the country. Tina Cordova and her mother, Rosalie, relax at Bonito Lake, New Mexico, in ...

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...

The atomic radius is essentially a measure of the size of an atom. It's defined as half the distance between the nuclei of two identical atoms bonded together. However, since atoms don't have a ...

Arranging species by decreasing atomic radii requires understanding the trends in atomic size within the periodic table and the effects of ionization. Atomic radius generally increases as you move ...

The job that takes me out of the house every morning (and funds my board gaming hobby) is ‘analytical chemist’. This means I spend my day running fancily named instruments and explaining to other ...

Aug. 6 marks the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima – and three days later, on Nagasaki – during World War II. Today, most Americans (83%) ...

Publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Mundfish announced the first-person action RPG, Atomic Heart, has surpassed 10 million players. This figure is up from five million players in its first ...

What is the commercial future of atomic energy? To find out, the Atomic Industrial Forum, a nonprofit organization of topflight businessmen headed by Detroit Edison Co.’s President Walker L. Cisler,* ...

For the first time, researchers from the PRISMA + Cluster of Excellence have determined the charge radius of helium-3 and thus also the exact difference to the radius of helium-4. This precision ...