More than a dozen people are believed to be dead and many more injured as several fires broke out across Southern California ...

Revolutionary technology is breaking out of the lab. The British government has announced that it is deploying a top-secret ...

IN 1940, we prepared the isotope of mass 211 of element 85 by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles accelerated in the 60-in. cyclotron of the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California 1.

IN 1937, Perrier and Segrè showed that radioactive isotopes of element 43 could be formed by neutron or deuteron bombardment of molybdenum 1. Several chemical properties of element 43 were ...

National Cancer Institute researchers have developed a method called HORNET for characterizing 3D topological structures of large and flexible RNA molecules. Scientists used atomic force ...

Atomic clocks that excite the nucleus of thorium ... time as how long it takes for the oscillator to undergo a certain number of oscillations. In a grandfather clock, a second may be defined ...

Three exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join ...

Chinese researchers have developed the world's smallest and most robust atomic clock that can survive the rigors of war.

The weapons have grown exponentially in power and number since being used for the first and only time in warfare by the United States on Japan. The first U.S. atomic bombing killed 140,000 people ...

One month was even named after him. Guess which one? Anyway, hasn’t it occurred to you that the number 12 is very much part of our daily life? Our hours, days and months are numbered by the ...

We're going to be hearing at about 08:00 local time (16:00 GMT) from Los Angeles officials on the status of the wildfires that have killed at least five people and destroyed structures across the city ...