In Frank Herbert’s space opera Dune, a precious natural substance called spice melange grants people the ability to navigate vast expanses of the cosmos to build an intergalactic civilization. In real ...

Physicists have filled in some longtime blank spaces on the periodic table, calculating electron affinities of the lanthanides, a series of 15 elements known as rare earths. Physicists at Michigan ...

The onset of an appreciable subshell closure at N = 34 is illustrated in Fig. 1d, indicating an energy gap between the νp1/2 and νf5/2 SPOs in 54 Ca that is comparable to the separation of the νp3/2 ...