Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

MIT scientists have snapped the first-ever images of individual atoms interacting freely in space, making visible the elusive ...

Soon after the Big Bang, powerful flares that came from magnetars, which are neutron stars with a strong magnetic field, […] ...

The term 'rare earth' dates to an 18th‑century Swedish mine and survives mainly out of habit. In truth, these 17 metals are ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "treasure trove" of ancient Bronze and Iron Age artifacts which recontexualize the role the ...

According to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, it is explosions of highly magnetized neutron stars, or ...

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

A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique ...

With six Nobel Prizes in the category, organometallic chemistry has been a widely explored field since the 1950s. Yet, the ...

Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new ...

Astronomers confirmed in 2017 that neutron star mergers can create gold, platinum, and other heavy elements, based on ...

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