By directing pulses of laser light at atoms, researchers can study how radioactive elements decay in a matter of seconds. The ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have successfully synthesized bacteriochlorophyll a, which is a ...

A new study suggests rare earth elements form in magma above ancient subduction zones, as that magma reacts with substances ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

On the far right side of the periodic table, just beneath oxygen, sits a lesser-known group of elements called the chalcogens ...

The Trump administration says it's returning U.S. science to a golden era. Critics say it's tarnished by political agendas.

A Galway-based student has led researchers to the discovery of a new planet after originally thinking she had spotted a large clump of dust. Chloe Lawlor, a PhD student at the Centre for Astronomy at ...

Meet Jewel®, the first and only Patch Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator (WCD). Jewel is the only WCD that is water-resistant and can be worn while showering. Recognition shines a spotlight on the ...

Dictionary entries for the word 'wool' must be urgently updated to include plant–based alternatives, woke scientists say. For centuries, the term has been used to describe the soft, curly hair forming ...

Modern physics is beginning to find jobs for unemployed elements; even the rarest and most intractable of them may soon be put to useful work. In the current Nucleonics, British Physicist R. West ...