On this day, 38 years ago, an accident occurred at the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It was the largest man-made disaster in history and remains so. After that, Fukushima happened, ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never stops — even at absolute zero.

According to legend, Galileo dropped weights off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, showing that gravity causes objects of different masses to fall with the same acceleration. In recent years, researchers ...

Air, water, bacteria, humans, computers, the stars: all of them are made from atoms. In fact, the atoms that make up Earth (and everything on it, including us), originally came from the stars, which ...

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In many ways, the history of civilization is the history of chemistry — the study of matter and its properties. Humans have always sought to identify, use and change the materials in our environment.

Since the beginning of time, human beings have sought to understand what the universe and everything within it is made up of. And while ancient magi and philosophers conceived of a world composed of ...

Luckily, we don't have to count them one by one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. All matter in the universe — no matter how big, ...

“Aiken is the community it is today in part because of its nuclear background,” said Joseph. “The Savannah River Site was the largest single event in Aiken’s history and has continued to exert a large ...

Air, water, bacteria, humans, computers, the stars: all of them are made from atoms. In fact, the atoms that make up Earth (and everything on it, including us), originally came from the stars, which ...