Creating new heavy elements is a faint bit like working a pinball machine; it takes a nice judgment of speed. Last week a group of University of California scientists led by Professor Glenn Seaborg ...

Professor Saw Wai Hla's groundbreaking atomic-scale imaging research, recognized by the DOE and prestigious awards, advances understanding and manipulation of rare earth elements critical to modern ...

The overwhelming majority of the universe’s matter that we can see consists of hydrogen and helium. To create heavier elements, stars must do the heavy lifting of assembling their atomic nuclei.

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