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 ...

Today's post has less to do with the periodic table per se than with people's obsessions with it. I wrote my book partly to help people see beyond the table as just a flat chart hanging on the wall of ...

Scientists have found the answer to a decades-long mystery, in the middle of two colliding stars. For the first ever time, a newly made heavy element called strontium was detected in space after two ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - One of the questions that comes up every year after the Western & Southern/WEBN Fireworks is: how do they do that? When each element burns, it creates a different color, which is ...

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 ...

Two neutron stars smashed together and shook the universe, triggering an epic explosion called a "kilonova" that spit lots of ultradense, ultrahot material into space. Now, astronomers have reported ...

After testing some of the first gladiator remains found, forensics anthropologist Fabian Kanz discovers that some bones contained unusually high levels of strontium. Gladiators may have been consuming ...

To really get to know someone, you have to get inside their head. And it’s the same for salmon. In their inner ear canals, just behind their eyes, sit small chunks of calcium carbonate called otoliths ...