A star’s colossal flare has revealed an unexpected origin for some of the universe’s heaviest elements, including gold and ...

In a paper published in Physical Review C, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has embarked on an innovative project to develop a small nuclear battery that converts ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

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

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements ...

"It's pretty incredible to think that some of the heavy elements all around us, like the precious metals in our phones and ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth discusses a process called r-process nucleosynthesis in a ...

A new study has found that rare magnetar flares could be a key source of heavy elements like gold and uranium, helping ...

A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.

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 ...