Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. The fate of some ...

Silver-based atomic switches that create stable electrical connections between individual molecules and electrodes have been ...

Standard atomic weights, those numbers emblazoned under the elements on the periodic table, were once thought of as unchanging constants of nature. But researchers have tweaked the atomic weights of ...

Researchers built a silver atomic switch that forms and breaks single-molecule junctions, enabling stable molecular wiring ...

Nineteen elements on the periodic table — including gold, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum — are getting their atomic weights adjusted. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) ...

In 2002, a team of Russian and American scientists created the first ever atom of oganesson, which is the heaviest chemical element ever recorded to date. With an atomic number of 118, oganesson ...

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UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

Standard atomic weights, those numbers emblazoned under the elements on the periodic table, were once thought of as unchanging constants of nature. But researchers have tweaked the atomic weights of ...