The isotope lead-208 was predicted to be extremely stable and perfectly spherical because of the “magic” numbers of electrons and protons orbiting its nucleus. When researchers blasted lead-208 with ...

An experiment bludgeoning special lead atoms with high-speed particles has revealed a shocking surprise. Far from the perfect sphere physicists from the University of Surrey expected to find, the ...

Sports term etymology is generally taken for granted. Most phrases are pretty obvious in origin; someone saw a baseball player hit the ball, and run to second base — so yeah, that’s a double. It just ...