Researchers discover new process for gold production in universe, challenging previous beliefs about element origins and ...

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

"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 ...

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

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

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

The team calculated that a magnetar's giant flare could create the right conditions for r-process elements to form, producing highly unstable radioactive nuclei that decay into stable heavy ...

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

A research team led by Prof. Di Kaichang from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of ...

This is the stuff of dreams. Scientists have turned lead into gold! Since ancient times, people have been trying to figure ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the ...