An innovative collaboration among scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fox Chase Cancer Center and the University of Tennessee has successfully applied neutron diffraction to create a ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of physics. In the search for conditions suitable for these elements via ...

An element's atomic number defines it. An element with 17 protons will always be chlorine. However an element's mass numbers can vary, which means that it can have different numbers of neutrons. So ...

Researchers in Germany have the most powerful source of ultracold neutrons, opening up the possibility of conducting a key experiment to determine the life time of the neutron. Scientists at Johannes ...

Complete the form below to unlock access to ALL audio articles. It is a model system for understanding other proteins involved in biological processes. The research will be published on-line the week ...