In a first, researchers have developed a new copper alloy that's one of the most resilient copper-based materials ever made.

Flares from a supermagnetized star may have generated as much as 10 percent of our galaxy’s heavy elements.

Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new ...

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

As global trade tensions intensify, the increasing demand for elements from the lesser known corners of the periodic table is ...

Lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite ... Another group, the rare earth elements, are the lanthanide series on the periodic table, and they're used to make powerful magnets for electric motors ...

This artist's concept depicts a magnetar - a type of neutron star with a strong magnetic field - losing material into space.

The universe began with mostly hydrogen, helium, and tiny amounts of lithium. Heavier elements came later, forged in stars ...

Hydrogen is the simplest atom on the periodic table, because it has only one proton. Helium, the second-simplest element, has two protons; lithium has three, and so on. Under certain conditions ...

To solve this problem, the researchers sandwiched copper-lithium precipitates between ... it will add a new row to the periodic table —Chemists broke a 100-year-old rule to make extremely ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...