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

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

Erik Pollock, a geoscientist at the U of A, is the lab manager of the University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Lab and the Trace Element and Radiogenic Isotope Lab.

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

Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new ...

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

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The willingness of the 4f orbitals of lanthanide metals to participate in chemical reactions is as rare as their presence in ...