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

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

Scientists have discovered the elusive properties hidden within promethium, a rare earth element that has remained largely ...

The term 'rare earth' dates to an 18th‑century Swedish mine and survives mainly out of habit. In truth, these 17 metals are ...

Sculptor Sir Antony Gormley and poet laureate Simon Armitage have worked together on a new public artwork in Oxford. The ...

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

Soon after the Big Bang, powerful flares that came from magnetars, which are neutron stars with a strong magnetic field, […] ...

Humans began creating alloys about 5,000 years ago by combining copper and tin to produce bronze. Since then, alloy design ...

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 ...

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