At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric ...

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

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 ...

Scientists propose that magnetars, highly magnetic neutron stars, could be the source of early heavy elements like gold. Analyzing old space data, res ...

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

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

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

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

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

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