A junior high school student here has passed the Japanese national qualification exam for handling Class A hazardous ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

Objects known as neutron stars, or pulsars, are the densest in the universe, but they suffer from seismic disturbances.

Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

Erik Pollock, a geoscientist at the U of A, is the lab manager of the University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Lab and the Trace Element and Radiogenic Isotope Lab.

With Utah's first-in-the-nation ban on fluoride in public drinking water set to take effect Wednesday, dentists who treat ...

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

Sculptor Sir Antony Gormley and poet laureate Simon Armitage have worked together on a new public artwork in Oxford. The University of Oxford will dedicate the artwork, a cast iron door, to Henry ...

A new study has found that rare magnetar flares could be a key source of heavy elements like gold and uranium, helping ...

See the fascinating creation of a tangible representation of the elements in this unique model of the periodic table.

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...