I read with great interest the article by Katherine Bourzac “Divining the Mysteries of the Atomic Nucleus” in the Jan. 29, 2024, issue of C&EN (page 30). Curious readers might like to know that an ...
The Bohr model, introduced by Danish physicist Niels Bohr in 1913, was a key step on the journey to understand atoms. Ancient Greek thinkers already believed that matter was composed of tiny basic ...
Figure 1: Close-up view of the bipolar planetary nebula Henize 2-428. The thermal timescale of the stars is ∼80,000 years, much less than the merging time of the system. If the radius of each star ...