The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

This could open up newer possibilities in making superheavy elements in the lab and understanding nuclear stability at higher atomic numbers. Superheavy elements are elements with a large number of ...

One of the best-sounding cars to make the run up the hill at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed was a Lamborghini Sesto Elemento. The ultra-rare trackday supercar's barely-muffled V10 screamed its ...

India hopes to raise domestic value addition in electronics, but China’s rare earth restrictions have exposed just how ...

Nominations and inquiries concerning awards should be directed to the National Awards Office at [email protected]. The deadline for submission of all nominating materials for the 2027 ACS National Awards ...

The periodic table of elements (often known simply as the periodic table) has been helping scientists with their work for a little over 150 years.

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process ...

Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

Uranium enrichment concentrates one specific type of the atom to create a substance that can generate massive amounts of ...

They are in your phone and your car, yet most people have never heard of them. As demand for clean energy and high-tech gadgets soars, rare earth elements have become more indispensable ...

Antarctic research reveals how rare earth elements move underground through freeze-thaw cycles in desert environments.

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has been getting bigger since the Big Bang. When the hydrogen and helium atoms ...