For the first time, astronomers have definitively ID’d a specific heavy element forged by a neutron star merger. Theories of physics have long predicted that about half of the universe’s heavy ...

High precision clock comparisons of different atoms will contribute to a redefinition of the unit of time. The comparison of optical lattice clocks using ytterbium and strontium atoms has attained a ...

Kilonova: artist’s impression of merging neutron stars. (Courtesy: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick) The first spectroscopic evidence that heavy elements are created by the merger of two neutron ...

Two years ago astronomers for the first time observed the collision of two neutron stars, which created gravitational waves and light and created heavy elements such as gold, platinum and lead. These ...

Andrea Sella, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at University College London, celebrates the art and science of the chemical elements. Today he looks at aluminium and strontium, elements that give us ...

A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the unique “geologic fingerprints” for most of the African continent. The map ...