You can't have gold until a nucleus decays. The specifics of that process have been hard to pin down, but UT's nuclear ...

Where does gold really come from? It turns out that the glittering metal on Earth has its roots in violent cosmic events — ...

Physics has seven magic numbers. An atom with a magic number of protons or neutrons is super stable. When both the protons and neutrons are magic, that’s a double magic atom. There are only six of ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 21, 2010 -- Tin may seem like the most unassuming of elements, but experiments performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are yielding surprising ...

Tin, a material whose name is sometimes synonymous with "dull," has a secret side that's extraordinary, physicists say. Scientists have succeeded in creating a new type of tin atom with "magic" ...

Visualization of the evolution of the nuclear size and shape from indium and tin isotopes between the major nuclear shells at N=50 and N=82, where N is the number of neutrons in the nucleus. The ...

ISOLTRAPpers Lukas Nies (right) and Maxime Mougeot (left) setting up the ISOLTRAP experiment’s multireflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Credit: CERN ISOLTRAPpers Lukas Nies (right) and Maxime ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...