Ryan Amberger is headed to Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he will spend the next year studying nuclear astrophysics — specifically, the process behind the creation of half of the elements ...

Particle-accelerator study focuses on the r-process thought to be responsible for forming elements heavier than iron ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider kicked off its final year of operations this week, marking a quarter century of discoveries in particle physics.

Scientists trying to discover the elusive mass of neutrinos, tiny "ghost particles" that could solve some of the universe's ...

Which are the heaviest metals on earth? And what are their uses? Discover the metal that ranks heaviest based on density and ...

It consists of one electron (or positron). It has a negative charge. When emitted the mass number does not decrease. A proton is gained but a neutron is lost. The atomic number therefore goes up ...

Dipole toroidal modes are a unique set of excitations that are predicted to occur in various physical systems, ranging from atomic ... number of neutrons is typically larger than that of protons ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

Quarks are the reason protons have a positive charge. Each quark has a fraction of an electric charge. A proton has two up ...