Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time ...

Harnessing sunlight to power the future has taken a major step forward thanks to new research on nanosized oxyhalide ...

This week, this enormous scientific facility, ten years in the making, will begin its hunt for the most elusive particles in ...

Ice, a common material, holds mysteries about its electrical behavior, with flexoelectricity potentially explaining ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends. Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists?

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected a "high-energy neutrino emission from within the Milky Way," according to AAAS.

Study has detected '6PPD' chemicals from tires in human urine, revealing daily exposure to particles derived from vehicle ...