Just last year, they added elements 113, 115, 117, and 118: nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og). This leads us to ask an important question: Is there a maximum ...

Physics writer Emily Conover joined Science News in 2016. She has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, where she studied the weird ways of neutrinos, tiny elementary particles that ...

Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions that hold them together in a space just a few femtometres (10-15 metres) across. Example ...