Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators have synthesized two new isotopes—osmium-160 and tungsten-156—shedding new light ...
While studying the atoms of heavy elements, physicists in Japan discovered a previously unknown isotope of uranium, with atomic number 92 and mass number 241, i.e. uranium-241. The finding refines our ...
ONE of the most remarkable characteristics of atoms is their predilection for the number 2 or for even numbers. The nuclei of atoms are now considered to be built up from hydrogen nuclei, which may be ...