Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

This new paper pushes the boundaries of actinide chemistry even further. The superatom structure is based around a trithorium ...

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 ...

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

Heavy actinides—elements at the bottom of the periodic table, after plutonium—are radioactive, rare and chemically complex, ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early ...

A Hadley, Massachusetts, man facing federal charges after explosives, ammunition and radioactive elements were found in his home has a past “obsession” with dangerous materials and explosions dating ...

A Massachusetts man, with a documented history involving explosives and hazardous materials, faces federal charges after ...

This is the story of America’s most radioactive town, where the half-life of certain radioactive elements will outlast all human memory of the place itself. Uranium City, New Mexico. Image via ...