Humans have been making metal alloys for thousands of years, and most of us can conjure a rough mental image of the ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

The bottom line is that the fact that fire is so tightly bound to Earth is a reminder of how special our planet is. Every ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.

Yuanyuan Wang and Wenlei Zhu's group at Nanjing University, China, and Yuehe Lin at Washington State University, USA, recently reported the ...

Controlling boron concentration at grain boundaries in platinum nanocatalysts prevents structural failure and preserves catalytic performance under prolonged high temperature conditions.

Laser written high entropy oxide electrodes with tree like nanoarrays integrate structure and chemistry to achieve efficient ...

Every year, around 30 per cent of Montreal’s drinking water is lost because of leaky pipes, but there may be a benefit from ...

The Fuel Division of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has manufactured and accepted a unique OS-5 fuel assembly ...