Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

Cadmium (Cd) isotopes have great potential for understanding Cd geochemical cycling in soil and aquatic systems. Iron (oxyhydr)oxides can sequester Cd via adsorption and isomorphous substitution, but ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Piezoelectric materials have attracted considerable attention over the last two decades because many technologies utilize their core properties of piezoelectric materials. Previous applications ...

The climate we live in affects our lives in profound ways: hot summers, cold winters, dry spells and wet weather all leave ...

Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth and one of the least studied within the periodic table, mostly ...

Isotopes fans lined up well before Saturday’s game for a chance to get some special team merch. The ‘Topes donned their ...

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, ...

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

Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

The evidence links human presence to Marine Isotope Stage 5a, a period of dramatic environmental shifts when monsoons from the Indian Ocean transformed Arabia’s deserts into green landscapes.