Dhurjati Mukherjee Rare earth elements (REEs) have come into sharp focus in recent times, with the search for minerals such ...

About 2,000 workers were drafted in as construction began in 1955 on the Chapelcross nuclear power station near Annan - the ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

Radioactive dust and particles could escape from the damaged Reactor 4 if the disaster site is hit by another missile.

Antimony (Atomic Number 51) is an Essential Element for US Defense. 80% of it Comes From China. Most of the rest comes from this one mining company — and it’s incidental to the precious metals this ...

Now, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Abdus Salam International ...

The unique properties of high-entropy alloys make them ideal for hydrogen storage, offering advantages in stability and ...

A 40-atom gold nanocluster breaks from gold's signature dense packing, forming square atomic planes with a central channel that accelerates electron relaxation about 80x.

Traditionally, X-ray methods require at least 10,000 atoms to generate a detectable signal. This is because the X-ray signal ...

A never-before-seen image of individual oxygen atoms dissolved in water has been captured.

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...