This artist's concept depicts a magnetar - a type of neutron star with a strong magnetic field - losing material into space.

Particle-accelerator study focuses on the r-process thought to be responsible for forming elements heavier than iron ...

At the risk of exposing my ignorance I would like someone to explain why. Their product, pig iron, or its immediate derivative, mild steel, isn’t high tech, and as I understand it much of the ...

Virtual-PeriodicTable is an open-source project designed to provide a customizable and interactive periodic table. Unlike many existing solutions, this project emphasizes simplicity and accessibility, ...

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The periodic table of elements—also known as Mendeleev’s table—was developed in 1869 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. It organizes all known chemical elements by their atomic number ...

Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified elemental metal, but the process requires a lot of energy and emits air pollution. Now, researchers in ACS Energy Letters report that ...

Miracles do happen. I completely agree with a comment made by Gov. Jeff Landry with regards to the failure of the proposed constitutional amendments. With our current Republican governor and our ...

State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China ...

A bizarre case has surfaced where a man’s unusual passion led to his potential imprisonment for up to 10 years. Emmanuel Lidden, a 24-year-old self-proclaimed "science nerd," aimed to collect every ...

School of Life Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, People’s Republic of China ...

A beloved iron sculpture of a ship outside the Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe has been demolished. Gardeners are now at work planting a wildflower meadow in its place. The Ship of Blueprints – known ...