Flares from a supermagnetized star may have generated as much as 10 percent of our galaxy’s heavy elements.

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 ...

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

The universe began with mostly hydrogen, helium, and tiny amounts of lithium. Heavier elements came later, forged in stars ...

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

moving the atom forward on the periodic table. This is how, for example, a gold atom could take on an extra neutron and then transform into mercury, they wrote. Recent research by co-authors of ...

CC Explorations, a leading satellite-based mineral exploration company, today announced the completion of its remote Atomic ...

“There may be enough neutrons produced this way to build heavy elements, from gold and platinum all the way up to the heaviest elements in the periodic table – and maybe even beyond.” If their model ...

Stay away from the highly reactive columns I and II on the periodic table—we can’t have lithium ... from mercury’s nucleus or insert one into platinum’s, you’ll end up with a nucleus ...

Atomic number 78 in the periodic table, platinum is one of eight precious metals, with a grey-white, subtly more subdued hue than white gold. But it takes a trained eye to differentiate platinum from ...