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 ...

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

Rare earth elements are actually more abundant than precious metals such as platinum and gold. The challenge, however, is ...

The optical properties of a thin layer of the semiconductor germanium-tin (GeSn) sandwiched between barriers of ...

Seventeen elements of the periodic table have taken on outsize importance because of their use in smartphones, electric ...

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 ...

Researchers have successfully grown platinum crystals in liquid metal, using a powerful X-ray technique giving rare insight ...

A new study in National Science Review have experimentally uncovered a suprising new state of matter within Earth's inner core–a superionic iron light-element alloy. In this state, light elements like ...

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.