Found in knee replacements and bone plates, aircraft components, and catalytic converters, the exceptionally strong metals ...

Chemistry professor Chris Chang’s lab studies the chemical biology of the elements, specifically examining the roles that ...

I’m too old and take too many pills to dream about normal things. I dream about the periodic table of elements, the only ...

A surprising scientific discovery in the remnants of Tycho Brahe’s workshop has revealed the presence of tungsten, an element ...

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

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

Titan Mining Corporation (TSX: TI, OTCQB: TIMCF) ("Titan" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the addition of 43,943 acres of ...

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

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

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