The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science approved $48.5 million for MSU's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams in February.

Atomic nuclei with “magic numbers” of protons or neutrons in their nuclear shells are extremely stable. Nuclear physicists ...

It explains the atomic structure of carbon ... Furthermore, it introduces the concept of carbon dating, utilizing carbon isotopes to determine the age of archaeological finds.

After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

The experimental signature is interpreted as the protons and neutrons inside the atomic nucleus vibrating in a coordinated pattern, resulting in a pulsing, asymmetric, pear-shaped structure. Professor ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

PROF. SODDY'S letter in NATURE of February 4 would seem to lead to certain interesting conclusions about the structure of the atom. It is easy to show that two elements of different atomic weight ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...