This article was originally published with the title “ The Size and Shape of Atomic Nuclei ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 221 No. 2 (August 1969), p. 58 doi:10.1038 ...

Accompanying Lesson Plan: Lesson 3.2: Finding Volume—The Water Displacement Method The chart shows that atomic size and mass for the first 20 elements in the periodic table. The size of the atoms and ...

The lives of two atomic bombing survivors have become unexpectedly linked through the rescue of a life-size model of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima that was bound for the junkyard. When Hiroshi ...