Imagine a liquid that flows freely one moment, then stiffens into a near-solid the next, and then can switch back with a ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.