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  1. Physics

    This heavy element has a football-shaped atomic nucleus

    Three nobelium isotopes have oblong nuclei, and some sport a ‘bubble’ center.

    By Emily Conover
  2. Physics

    In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics

    A century after she published a groundbreaking mathematical theory, Emmy Noether gets her due.

    By Emily Conover
  3. Science & Society

    So what do you know about Emmy Noether?

    Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses physicist Emmy Noether and women being underrepresented in science fields.

    By Nancy Shute
  4. Environment

    Sunshine is making Deepwater Horizon oil stick around

    Sunlight created oxygen-rich oil by-products that are still hanging around eight years after the Deepwater Horizon spill.