Which Metal is the Lightest of All? The natural world is governed by density, which dictates whether something floats, sinks, or is heavy to lift. In the world of metals—those strong, shiny materials ...

An atom is the smallest unit of an element that retains its chemical properties. It is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. (Image: M ...

When the US Department of Energy announced that it would stop funding the tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, ...

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

Nuclear power has a lot of potential, but many fear the dangers of nuclear meltdowns. Fortunately, some new reactors might ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

Four researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have been awarded prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants by the European Research Council ...

The tiny atom, the basic building block of everything, is itself almost nothing, but atoms form a crossroads where science ...

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a ...

Nuclear bombs do not rely on size, they rely on physics. Here is how chain reactions and hydrogen bombs unleash power on a ...

The milestone marks the first production of uranium chloride fuel for a fast-spectrum molten chloride reactor in the United ...

Inside a French fusion experiment, a metal more associated with lightbulb filaments than star power just did something ...