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

Now, researchers led by Los Alamos National Laboratory have proposed a bold new idea: that stars collapsing into black holes ...

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

Based on accepted cosmological models, hydrogen and helium were the only elements in the earl. These coalesced to form the ...

"The creation of heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium necessitates ... The key to producing the heaviest elements on the periodic table is known as the rapid neutron-capture process ...

An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest for more accurate optical atomic clocks ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like ...