A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

After learning about the elements of the periodic table, sophomore honors chemistry students in Ms. Shelby Reynolds’ class at ...

The best of Los Angeles architecture in 2025 felt like attractive experiments with an uncanny sense of the future. They include micro-scaled production studios to a high school completed in two months ...

In 2025, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) led groundbreaking research in artificial intelligence, ...

Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

They’re gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, and worth billions. No, not Hollywood starlets and hunks and the stars of K-Pop. Well, OK, yes – they are gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, ...

Primordial nucleosynthesis during the early universe generated hydrogen, helium, and minor lithium-7 before the cosmos cooled, halting further fusion. Stellar interiors synthesize elements up to iron ...

You are entirely forgiven for not knowing this, since they are not especially rare — cerium is about as common as copper. The problem is that they’re difficult to isolate and purify; it wouldn’t be ...

In April, China imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements, crippling American manufacturing across dozens of critical sectors. Ford temporarily shuttered production lines while European ...

MIT researchers found that different algorithms can all be grouped into a ‘periodic table’ of AI. The idea for the table was an accident that emerged from identifying similarities between two ...

Creating new heavy elements is a faint bit like working a pinball machine; it takes a nice judgment of speed. Last week a group of University of California scientists led by Professor Glenn Seaborg ...