Remarkably, even though radioactivity is a threat to life, scientists can control and use it to diagnose and treat diseases – ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...

Theodore Gray. Black Dog and Leventhal (Workman, dist.), $19.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-57912-895-1 Gray (Mad Science) blends science, art, and social commentary in this delightful and ...

This lesson utilizes an adaptation of the board game Subatomic: An Atom Building Game to help students learn about the different parts that make up an atom. During their turn, players can choose to ...

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...

It’s not every day an element gets added to the periodic table. The last time it happened was 2016, when four new elements became official. For these elements, reaching the table was an epic quest ...

Developed by researchers at MIT, the method uses the atom’s own electrons as “messengers” within a molecule to help probe ...

Light elements are the dominant impurity species in fusion research devices. Although a large amount of data exist for a number of processes in several ion stages of elements of interest, significant ...