Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by using a titanium beam to irradiate a sample, could point toward the ...
An international team of researchers recently measured the lifetime of a neutron outside of an atomic nucleus with extraordinary precision. By their measurements, the neutron survived for 14.629 ...
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 ...
Neutron clustering measurements at the Walthousen Reactor Critical Facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Schenectady, NY. (Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory) The first ever live ...
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Why are elements like radium dangerous? A chemist explains radioactivity and its health effects
Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than ...
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US scientists use neutrons to develop safer, faster-charging solid-state batteries
A team of scientists led by Duke University has discovered how to make batteries that are safer, charge more quickly, and ...
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