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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many heavy atoms form from a supernova explosion, the remnants of which are shown in this image. NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team ...

When it comes to our world, our Solar System, and everything we can see in our Universe, it's all made up of the same ingredients: atoms. Electrons and atomic nuclei interact and link up to form not ...

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The word “ atom ” is from the Greek word atomos, which means “uncuttable”. This is the smallest particle in the universe that ...

Inside the nucleus of some atoms, protons appear to be doing very unexpected things. They are pairing up far more often than usual when they get extremely close to each other, and physicists don’t ...

For surfers, it's not enough just to wait for the right wave: they still have to know how to catch it. As it turns out, one challenge faced by surfers also applies to protons. An experiment recently ...

Physics Professor Manuel Calderón de la Barca Sánchez and his students are using the largest and most complex machine ever built to probe the strongest force in nature at the tiniest of scales. “In a ...

Atoms are made from protons, neutrons and electrons. The periodic table arranges elements according to their atomic size and other properties, atomic theory and atomic numbers.