CUDDALORE: The decision by a young Hindu couple, Mohan and Chitra, to name their newborn girl child Yunus as a sign of gratitude to the man who rescued them from their marooned house at Urappakkam, ...

The “lead” of a pencil is actually made of a substance called graphite which is made of carbon atoms. The picture shows a close-up of one carbon atom. A hydrogen atom has one proton as the nucleus and ...

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If you hit an atom’s nucleus hard enough, it will fall apart. But exactly how it falls apart tells us something about the internal structure of the nucleus and perhaps about the interior of neutron ...