Scientists have discovered helium-3 beneath northern Minnesota, a rare isotope once thought to exist mainly on the Moon.

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of scientific information to future generations, it would be that all things are ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Understanding how atoms form is a fundamental and important question, since they make up ...

POSITIVELY charged hydrogen atoms with velocities acquired by falling through 300 to 900 volts have been found to possess an unexpected range in helium and other gases. With helium pressures so high ...

Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are energetic particles traveling across the Galaxy as high-energy beams, and are a unique probe to explore the astrophysical particle accelerators and the interstellar ...

Which is your favourite chemical element? To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table, our science journalists will be arguing for their pick from the 118 known elements. In this instalment, ...

Physicists, who dedicate their lives to studying the topic, don’t actually seem to like physics very much since they’re always hoping it’s broken. But we’ll have to forgive them; finding out that a ...

When people talk about evidence for the Big Bang, they’re most likely to point to the Cosmic Microwave Background. But there’s another major piece of evidence that the Big Bang happened, and it ...

The methods previously described have been applied to a study of the elastic scattering of 4· 2 MeV protons by deuterium, helium, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, argon, chlorine and bromine. The results ...