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

Upgrades and new research at Argonne National Laboratory are helping physicists push boundaries, from basic science to the ...

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

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

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 ...

Physicists at RHIC are set to complete data collection on the quark-gluon plasma – a state of matter from the moments after the Big Bang.

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.

could help us better understand the structure of heavy atomic nuclei and the physics of neutron stars. Isotopes are forms of an element that have the same number of protons and electrons, but ...

This is a stringent test of QED for the simplest atomic system ... for argon ions with a proton number Z of 18. However, the nucleus is not a point charge like the electron and its charge ...