A California startup has developed the specialized resin beads needed to extract lithium from brine with ion exchange and ...

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no ...

A spectacular new study suggests that colossal bursts from dead stars, known as magnetar flares, could be behind some of the ...

Megan Thee Stallion wore a design courtesy of Quine Li. The “Savage” rapper and Grammy Award-winning artist wore a sleeveless ...

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

Discover how gold in your jewelry may have cosmic origins, created in magnetar explosions billions of years ago, as revealed ...

A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.

When two lead nuclei race through the LHC at nearly the speed of light, they sometimes just miss each other. Instead of ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth discusses a process called r-process nucleosynthesis in a ...

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

Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider successfully transformed lead into gold atoms, achieving an ancient alchemist ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...