See the fascinating creation of a tangible representation of the elements in this unique model of the periodic table.

The ancient Greeks looked to use the four main elements to interpret reality and the world. Empedocles was the proponent of ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

Inside the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, a new atomic clock named NIST-F4 has begun to tick — not with the sound of gears or bells, but with the quantum pulse of cesium ...

Based on accepted cosmological models, hydrogen and helium were the only elements in the earl. These coalesced to form the ...

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

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like ...

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

"The creation of heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium necessitates extreme conditions," said physicist Matthew ...