Billions of tons of silicon and oxygen surround us, yet one element hides in nearly invisible traces. It's rarer than gold, and most people have never even heard its name.

While daydreaming on a bus, and then while dozing by the fireside, Auguste Kekulé realized that carbon atoms can combine into ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state under Earth’s core pressure and temperature conditions. Beneath Earth’s ...

Researchers from Skoltech, MIPT, and the RAS Institute of Nanotechnology of Microelectronics have achieved a five-fold ...

A moving memory play that sees the two - and only- characters clamber over a wall of filing cabinets, Lost Atoms recounts the ...

High-precision laser spectroscopy measurements on the thorium-229 nucleus could reveal new physics, say TU Wien physicists ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

A moving memory play that sees the two - and only- characters clamber over a wall of filing cabinets, Lost Atoms recounts the course of a romantic relationship in an unorthodox manner. In Frantic ...

Mold was found at Chernobyl in 1997, and later scientists noticed radiation at the reactor was attracting numerous types of fungi.

Atoms found deep inside our planet argue that parts of “proto-Earth,” the early version of our planet, still survive inside the mantle.

X-ray computed tomography was then utilized to image a droplet of the platinum-Gallium alloy. Cross-sections were acquired ...

The team used X-rays to study the formation of platinum crystals in liquid metal. They took platinum beads and dissolved them ...