An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter ...

Data from oceans, ice and the air all point to the same thing: rising invisible heat. What experiments are working, and what kinds of trials do we need to stop?

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

Two protons and a neutron A discrepancy between two different measurements of the charge radius of the helium-3 nucleus may have been reconciled. (Courtesy: Shutterstock) Independent measurements of ...

The helium and deuterium − a heavier form of hydrogen − nuclei formed even earlier, just a few minutes after the Big Bang, when the temperature was above 1 billion F (556 million C).

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