Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the ...

The study, led by Xiaochen Jin, used machine learning to determine that the atomic structure of Group 4 alloys, which ...

World of Interiors is a website featuring photos of rooms in people’s homes and shops. It’s exciting and inspirational. Look at these: dining chairs painted like the game pick-up sticks; a pop-art ...

An unknot (also known as the trivial knot) can be drawn with any number of crossings. Any possible manipulation of a knot ...

Critics slammed attempts by Google, Microsoft and Meta to speed up materials discovery. But behind the hype, there is progress.

You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding.

Many of us remember a time when the periodic table appeared with some curious blank spots ... they use increasingly advanced technologies to jam more protons inside the nuclei of atoms in order to ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

Research suggests some metals’ semicore electrons may be more active on Earth’s surface than previously thought.

Some atoms are stable, while others seem to fall apart ... Therefore, whether this magic stability boost will be enough to allow scientists to add an eighth row to the periodic table remains an open ...

A new boron-rich compound, manganese diboride, delivers much higher energy density than current solid-rocket materials while ...