Chemists use symbols and formulae to represent elements ... surrounded by electrons in shells. The numbers of subatomic particles in an atom can be calculated from its atomic number and mass ...

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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) scares many people as neural networks, modeled after the human brain, are so complex ...

ALMA researchers reported the discovery of oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. Geologists believe unusual structures in ...

Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts to both answer philosophical questions about the nature of the universe and provide solutions to ...

Milling involves thermal stress and is energy intensive. Lengthier processing can potentially abrade the grinding media, contaminating the particles. Purely mechanical milling can be accompanied by ...

A Canada-based technology company is taking an out-of-this-world approach to help miners find orebodies faster and then better understand them when they do. Ideon Technologies uses subatomic particles ...

The fundamental particles are summarised by the standard model. This includes leptons (such as the electron), the quarks that make up protons and neutrons, and gauge bosons, which mediate forces ...