Nuclear isomers are crucial probes for studying the structure of nuclei. Unlike chemical isomers—which have the same chemical formula but different arrangements of atoms—nuclear isomers are nuclei ...

The Hubble and Euclid space telescopes caught a stunning portrait of a dying star at the heart of the Cat's Eye Nebula.

A dying star’s final breath creates a haunting, brain-shaped cosmic silhouette.

Unlike much of the news in the energy storage field, which often focuses on cathode breakthroughs, this study zeroes in on the chemistry of electrolytes – ...

Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

Maria Goeppert Mayer is remembered as one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. She was born in Germany ...

Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free?

Quote of the day by the woman who changed science, Maria Goeppert Mayer: In 1963, only the second woman in history won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Maria Goeppert Mayer earned it for the nuclear shell ...

A nuclear escalation in the Middle East would trigger a global catastrophe. Know the physics behind nuclear weapons, and the ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

A research team in China has developed an electrolyte using monofluorinated hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) solvents capable of ...

Engineers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney have developed a method to convert discarded peanut shells into high-grade graphitic (graphene-like) carbon for potential use in batteries and ...