The story of caesium’s discovery concerns three men – two men who worked in tandem to announce their discovery on May 10, ...

Scientists have discovered the elusive properties hidden within promethium, a rare earth element that has remained largely ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever created.

In the quest to generate limitless clean energy, China has just taken a step closer. Scientists have achieved the milestone ...

Advancements in structural nanomedicine aim to standardize nanomedicine formulations, improving treatment consistency and ...

Historically, the vast majority of pharmaceutical drugs have been meticulously designed down to the atomic level.

Scientists are transforming nanomedicine by using atomic-level design to build smarter ... Now, scientists from Northwestern University and Mass General Brigham believe this same level of structural ...

Isotopes are atoms of the same element with the same atomic number but different mass numbers due to a difference in the number of neutrons. Some atoms exist in nature as a mixture of isotopes. A ...

to 47 (silver), without getting all the way up to the heaviest elements such as gold (atomic number 79) or actinides like thorium (90) and uranium (92). This weak r-process could occur in a variety of ...

When it comes to nuclear science, particularly nuclear chemistry, all processes and problems tie back to the Periodic Table, in which each element has an atomic number indicating the number of ...

Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, United States ...