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New observations have revealed early signs of UV light illuminating the cosmos more than 13 billion years ago.

RICHLAND, Wash.-Chemist Zheming Wang, whose research largely focuses on the chemistry underlying radioactive and advanced ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

US president Donald Trump recently signed an agreement to share Ukraine’s mineral resources. Just how scarce are rare earth ...

Australia's vast reserves of rare earth elements and critical minerals give the country a potential bargaining ... For Australia, if you look at those 50, we are currently supplying 28 and can supply ...

During the process, they discovered something unexpected about this particular f-block element on the periodic table that could help us understand transuranium elements more broadly as well as ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of organometallic chemistry. They have synthesized and ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

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The breakthrough disrupts long-held theories about the chemistry of the elements that follow uranium in the periodic table. A research team led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...