Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by ...

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, ...

America already mines all the critical minerals it needs for energy, defense, and technology, but most are being wasted as ...

The collision and merger of two neutron stars -- the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars -- are some of the most energetic events in the ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are becoming increasingly important in electronic gadgets used in day-to-day life, yet the natural sources and sinks of REEs are largely understudied.

"Deployable Diffractive Optical Elements for Small Satellite Lidar Missions" by Adam Bahlous-Boldi. Abstract: SPECIES (Smart Polyimide Expandable Collector to enable Investigations for Earth Science) ...

Several well-known meteorite discoveries are still a mystery. Avi Loeb’s interpretation of some meteorite debris possibly being of alien origin is controversial, because peer‑reviewed analyses point ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how ...

Since 2000, there have been plenty of great sci-fi movies released, with classics like Children of Men, 28 Days Later, and ...

Scientists detect a solid inner core on Mars for the first time, revealing a new chapter in planetary evolution.

When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The ...

In a significant breakthrough, astronomers have identified the presence of so-called “forbidden” elements in the Sun’s core.