A physicist explains how atoms arrange themselves into molecules – and how scientists are able to image these tiny bits of ...

they expected oxygen-28 to be stable (with 8 protons and 20 neutrons). They were surprised that, once created, it almost immediately decayed into another isotope. There are other examples of times ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

Our physics expert picks his top-five equations, plus a scheme to supply US power needs with a bucket of baseballs. Thanks, ...

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha particles – two neutrons and two protons ... in an oxygen atom and ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.