However, one of them, oxygen-28, seems to defy this rule. A team from the SAMURAI21-NeuLAND collaboration has shown, through ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...

Image of the emission of 4 neutrons (blue spheres) from the exotic nucleus oxygen-28, which consists of 8 protons (red spheres) and 20 neutrons.

When two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom get close enough, the electron from each atom feels an attraction from the protons in the other atom's nucleus. This attraction pulls the atoms together. The ...

Normal metabolic activity produces reactive oxygen species (ROS) that ... “You start to realize that actually, to get from the mitochondria into the nucleus and damage the DNA, you have to pass a lot ...

Since this atom has a total of eight electrons, it also has eight protons. The atom with eight protons in its nucleus (atomic number 8) is oxygen. Each energy level holds a certain number of electrons ...

Red blood cells for example, have no nucleus, so they can hold more oxygen. They're also biconcave or disc-shaped to absorb oxygen more quickly and rounded to flow easily through tiny capillaries.

Most life on Earth relies on the sun’s energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...