Indium belongs to a group of elements that has never been brought to an ultracool state before, but a team of researchers has ...

The Murchison meteorite, which fell in Australia in 1969, is over 4.6 billion years old and provides insights into the solar system’s formation. It contains pre-solar grains and organic compounds, ...

Back in the old days—the really old days—the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of ...

Back in the old days - the really old days - the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of 1,000-plus years, tried ...

Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...

The seventh row of the table was completed in 2016 when Tennessine, Nihonium, Moscovium, and Oganesson were added. Elements ...

The Department of Defense is intensifying efforts to secure critical minerals essential for military systems, amid growing ...

Born in the Rhine region of Germany in 1896, Ida Tacke knew as she grew up she did not want to be a schoolteacher, and ...

Sophia Kalantzakos examines the geopolitics of critical minerals, emphasizing the significance of rare earth elements (REEs) ...

Greenland is flush with rare earth elements, which America needs for tech and defense—but China largely controls.

On the Pic du Midi in the Pyrenees, ETH researchers have analyzed particulate matter, clouds and rainwater for traces of ...