If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...

Maria Goeppert Mayer with colleagues outside of the physics building at Argonne National Laboratory, circa 1946. Argonne physicists still conduct groundbreaking research in the same building.

The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei – the center part of atoms, which make up all matter – were more ...