A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, ...

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

Rumors are circulating that laboratories in China can produce gold. Here's how gold is made in labs, as we know it.

Alchemy is no longer a myth. See how scientists turned lead to gold by recreating Big Bang conditions on Earth and why this discovery is a scientific milestone.

Researchers have identified rare proton emissions that reveal how the neck of a nucleus stretches and snaps, providing a new ...

There is no measurement that can directly observe the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, but the wave function is still enormously useful as its (complex) square represents the probability ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

THE remarkable results obtained within the past fifteen months by employing the spinning electron in Bohr's atomic model suggest the question whether it may not be necessary to suppose that the proton ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), in cooperation with national and international research groups, have ...

After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.

For example, the atomic number of sodium is 11. Every sodium atom has 11 protons and 11 electrons. It has 11 positive charges and 11 negative charges. The mass number of an atom is its total number of ...

Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated ...