In an unprecedentedly precise accelerator experiment, researchers directly observed how some of the heaviest known elements ...

Dive deep into the mystery of chemical elements. How are they formed, and have we discovered them all? Is there a limit to ...

Chris Bryan will give a talk to Friends of ORNL on Tuesday, Aug. 12, on 60 years of scientific highlights in the reactor’s history, plans for upgrades ...

The periodic table is one of the triumphs of science. Even before certain elements had been discovered, this chart could successfully predict their masses, densities, how they would link up with other ...

“Lead to gold is one of those things that the experiment was not designed for,” Takaki tells Newscripts. The LHC was designed to smash lead ions into each other, but the ALICE researchers found that ...

China controls most of the global rare earth magnet supply. A two-year-old company seeks to change this dynamic from Research ...