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

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

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, ...

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 ...

The origin of the elements that follow iron in the periodic table is one of the biggest mysteries in nuclear ... One scenario involves radioactive isotopes (that is, those with a few more neutrons ...

After ordering various radioactive samples over the internet in an effort to collect the entire periodic table, Emmanuel Lidden pleaded guilty to two charges: moving nuclear material into Australia ...

Both puzzles are intertwined with one another — you’ll need to solve the periodic table puzzle in order to adjust the electricity on the machine. Below, in this Blue Prince guide, we’ll tell ...

Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.