For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.

He told me that protons – along with neutrons – form the nucleus in the middle of an atom. “Atoms make up all the stuff that we see,” Corbin said. “An atom has neutrons and protons in ...

In near-miss collisions between heavy lead atoms, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have detected the real-world ...

Now, researchers in the US and South Korea have used a neutron beam to differentiate between genuine antique coins and fakes.

Atoms come together in hopes of becoming more stable, thus making some of the most essential compounds we know today – carbon dioxide, water, salt, and acids. Atomic elements are arranged on the ...

Elements are determined by their number of protons. But when atoms take on extra neutrons, they might become ... history of our galaxy,” Patel tells Science’s Jenna Ahart.

Physicists captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the 'free-range' particles that until now were predicted but never directly ...

A study gives clues to cosmic origin of gold and heavy elements, and they were created earlier than we thought.

Atoms can be bosons or fermions, depending on their total spin, which is determined by whether the total number of their protons, neutrons, and electrons is even or odd. In general, bosons attract ...