Last year, physicists cast doubt on our current understanding of the interplay between electrons and atomic nuclei, and are now upping the ante by proposing a solution to this so-called “hyperfine ...

I am not only a fan of DIY science experiments, but more important, I am a big fan of shiny things. You know how hunters lure raccoons to their deaths? Basically what happens is they put a shiny ...

Bismuth is an unusual element that we don't encounter much in everyday life. But this pretty, iridescent metal, found near the bottom of the periodic table, exhibits some extraordinary properties.

A team of scientists proposed a theoretical model that explains the unexpectedly high values of the linear magnetoelectric effect in bismuth ferrite that have been observed in a number of experiments ...

China's first lead-bismuth alloy zero-power reactor - Qixing (Venus) III - achieved first criticality on 9 October, the China Institute of Atomic Energy has announced. The milestone marks the start of ...

Many heavy elements radioactively decay into lighter ones, although some do it faster than others. For decades, textbooks have listed bismuth-209 as the heaviest naturally occurring atom that never ...

Deceptive appearance: While bismuth appears to be topological at the surface, this masks the fact that the bulk material is not topological. (Courtesy: Yuki Fuseya) Bismuth has puzzled scientists for ...

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