For the first time in history, a change will be made to the atomic weights of some elements listed on the Periodic table of the chemical elements posted on walls of chemistry classrooms and on the ...

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Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Chemical reactions power everything from industrial manufacturing to clean energy production, but their efficiency depends critically on catalysts - materials that speed up ...

For the first time, a research team from the University of Cologne has observed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, ...

Atomic nuclei are normally compact structures defined by a sharp border. About twenty-five years ago, it was discovered that there are exceptions to this picture: Certain exotic atomic nuclei contain ...

The quantum size of a neutrino has been measured for the first time using innovative table-top measurements of the particle’s ...