There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed ...

In the LHC, the world's largest collider, scientists accelerated lead nuclei to 99.999993% the speed of light, sending them ...

An international collaboration of scientists working with the FAIR Phase 0 program at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für ...

A study gives clues to cosmic origin of gold and heavy elements, and they were created earlier than we thought.

The stellar cannonball, which has a magnetic field capable of ripping humans apart atom by ... rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics ...

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The United States has long benefited from an enormous brain gain, with the most talented scientists and engineers around the ...

NASA scientists are tracking a star which is so powerful it would rip a human apart if they came within 600 miles - and they ...

On rare occasions, magnetars can release high-energy radiation by undergoing ... However, if an atom acquires an extra neutron, it can undergo nuclear decay, which can turn a neutron into a ...