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

This includes understanding atoms as the building blocks of matter, as well as the arrangement of protons, neutrons, and electrons. HS-PS-1: Use the periodic table as a model to predict the relative ...

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 ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space— “free-range” particles never ...

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 ...

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

Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, were able to convert lead into gold ...

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

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 ...