FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the world’s largest particle accelerator prepares to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, which many scientists theorize was the massive explosion that ...

A national worker safety organization is raising awareness that shipyard workers may be exposed to a potentially toxic metal called beryllium. Worker safety advocates studied the dangers of beryllium ...

The electron shell of atoms acts as an "electromagnetic shield," preventing direct access to the nucleus and its properties. A team in the group of Klaus Blaum, director at the Max Planck Institute ...

Shortly after the Big Bang, radioactive atoms of the type beryllium-7, among others, came into being. Today, throughout the universe, they have long since decayed and do not occur naturally, in ...

Main group elements in low oxidation states have the potential to carry out chemistry that’s usually reserved for transition metals. For example, at low oxidation states, these atoms might be able to ...