Physicists unlock secrets of stellar alchemy, yielding new insights into gold's cosmic origins

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

Many stable atoms have ‘magic numbers’ of protons and neutrons − 75 years ago, 2 physicists discovered their special properties

The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic ...