An international team of researchers has successfully produced an isotope of the superheavy element livermorium — a feat they say opens the door to discovering new elements. The experiments took place ...

ORNL’s Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri and team studied doubly magic tin-132 — especially stable because it takes more energy to remove a proton or a neutron than neighboring isotopes need. Separated by an ...

Astronomer Carl Sagan put it best: "We're made of star stuff." The atoms that make up the chemicals of our bodies didn't originate on Earth; they came from deep space. The big bang created hydrogen, ...