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 ...

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

Astronomers confirmed in 2017 that neutron star mergers can create gold, platinum, and other heavy elements, based on ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like plutonium, challenging traditional theories and possibly explaining strange cosmic ...

An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest ...

"The creation of heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium necessitates extreme conditions," said physicist Matthew ...

A research team involving University of Iowa chemists reports a new oxidation state for a rare earth chemical element, a ...

Earlier this month, the Chinese government escalated things even further, subjecting seven rare earth elements to a more ...

School of Information Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, P. R. China College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106 ...

BEIJING: China's export controls on three metals important across the defence and chip sectors are keeping shipments at ...

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