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

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Scientists have developed tiny nanocrystal particles made up of isotopes of the elements lanthanum, vanadium, and oxygen for ...

There are other uses of uranium apart from nuclear weapons as discussed in this article. Uranium is a silver-grey metal that ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

Attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities have already triggered at least one internal radiation leak, but should we be concerned ...

British researchers have developed diamond batteries that use carbon-14 to generate microwatts' worth of power for up to ...

Satellite images reveal damage, but experts suggest that new technology may be able to verify what actually happened ...