Georgetown University researchers have discovered a new class of strong magnets that do not rely on rare-earth or precious ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

Since the turn of the century, six new chemical elements have been discovered and subsequently added to the periodic table of elements, the very icon of chemistry. These new elements have high atomic ...

An international team of scientists has shed light on the extreme ends of neutron and proton numbers. Their goal is to investigate the limits of the periodic table of chemical elements. How far can ...

Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

At the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they ...

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An illustration of SN2021yfj enveloped in a layer of heavy elements during its supernova explosion W. M. Keck Observatory / Adam Makarenko In September 2021, Steve Schulze, an astrophysicist at ...