Over a thousand people, from the very young to the very old, packed a large auditorium yesterday at The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt, to watch The Wonders of Phsyics, a fast-paced ...

Powerful machines known as accelerators allow physicists to study how the elements form and also to create new elements and atomic isotopes. RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science Except ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may make all the difference. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

AMES, Iowa – Soeren Prell reached for the bookshelf behind his desk and pulled down a binder thick and heavy with 900 pages documenting the lives and discoveries of two major physics experiments. That ...