Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are pushing materials design ...

Why do certain surfaces behave very differently from what theoretical calculations suggest? Scientists long assumed that the ...

Nineteen elements on the periodic table — including gold, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum — are getting their atomic weights adjusted. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Researchers have discovered that atoms can be mixed, separated, and recombined within the same experiment, providing a ...

(Nanowerk News) When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Standard atomic weights, those numbers emblazoned under the elements on the periodic table, were once thought of as unchanging constants ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese scientists behind the discovery of element 113, the first atomic element found in Asia - indeed, the first found outside Europe or the United States - have dubbed it ...

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At the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they ...

PTB’s ion traps (top right) and the PENTATRAP Penning trap mass spectrometer at MPIK in Heidelberg (bottom left) were used to obtain a new insight into the differences between isotopes and new limits ...