A lanthanide–carbon triple bond has been created for the first time, specifically a bond between cerium and carbon, ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Fine-structure constant (α): A dimensionless constant that determines the strength of electromagnetic interactions, critical in the precision determination of atomic energy levels.

Historian Eric Burton, mathematician Alexander Glazman and physicist Elisabeth Gruber have been awarded one of the ASTRA ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Two protons and a neutron A discrepancy between two different measurements of the charge radius of the helium-3 nucleus may have been reconciled. (Courtesy: Shutterstock) Independent measurements of ...