Inscribed on an Italian family’s 15th century coat of arms and decorating an ancient Japanese shrine, the Borromean rings are symbolically potent. Remove one ring from the trio of linked circles and ...

Some of the heaviest atoms in the universe barely exist long enough to be ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are credited in the discovery of 16 of the 118 known elements. Now they’ve completed the crucial first ...

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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. “What is radium and why is it dangerous?” – ...

Nano-scale snowflake made from zinc. Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms created something unexpected: Tiny metallic snowflakes. The research aims to study ...

Collaborative efforts decode the mechanism behind stabilizing cathode doping in electric vehicle batteries. Professor Si-Young Choi, and So-Yeon Kim and Yu-Jeong Yang, PhD candidates, from the ...

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