Menlo Park, Calif. -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have recorded the most detailed atomic movie of gold melting after being blasted by laser light.

That means that collisions at powerful particle accelerators need to rip only three protons from lead (alongside some neutrons) to make gold. Shaving off one or two protons, on the other hand, creates ...

For almost 100 years, the Soudan mine in Tower, Minn., yielded the purest iron ore in the country. Now University researchers will mine knowledge that could put them on the forefront of physics ...