The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...

But the most interesting point is that, if we take the atomic weight of the lead isotope derived from uranium as 206.0, and that derived from thorium as 208.0, and calculate the atomic weight of ...

A five-dimensional model has successfully predicted the asymmetric fission of mercury isotopes, offering new insights into ...

A new method uses helium droplets combined with ultrashort laser pulses to trigger chemical reactions in a controlled way.

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...