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Scientists have discovered the elusive properties hidden within promethium, a rare earth element that has remained largely ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

Objects known as neutron stars, or pulsars, are the densest in the universe, but they suffer from seismic disturbances.

Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

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Erik Pollock, a geoscientist at the U of A, is the lab manager of the University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Lab and the Trace Element and Radiogenic Isotope Lab.

MIT researchers have recently unveiled an innovative framework that organizes artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in a ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

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