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

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

In a first, researchers have developed a new copper alloy that's one of the most resilient copper-based materials ever made.

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

Lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite ... Another group, the rare earth elements, are the lanthanide series on the periodic ...

As global trade tensions intensify, the increasing demand for elements from the lesser known corners of the periodic table is ...

Lithium resources are abundant in all parts of the world - and particularly present in South America. Chile is the country with the largest lithium reserves in the world, with 9.2 million tons in ...

Hydrogen is the simplest atom on the periodic table, because it has only one proton. Helium, the second-simplest element, has two protons; lithium has three, and so on. Under certain conditions ...

At first glance, lithium – the least dense solid element in the periodic table – might look like a simple metal characterised by a funny soft texture. However, its use in lithium-ion batteries ...

To solve this problem, the researchers sandwiched copper-lithium precipitates between ... it will add a new row to the periodic table —Chemists broke a 100-year-old rule to make extremely ...

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

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