Astronomers may have discovered how water originated in the universe, challenging existing theories on star formation.

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

Astronomers have used near-infrared light to explore the extreme forces behind the eruption of LMC68, a recurrent nova in the ...

The most distant and earliest known galaxy is called JADES-GS-z14-0 and its light comes from when the universe was less than ...

Photoluminescent materials are more than just the glow-in-the-dark stars your parents glued to your bedroom ceiling as a ...

Researchers at the Universities of Amsterdam and Zurich have developed a molecular system for the controlled release of iron.

An atom is so small that a single drop of water contains more than a billion atoms. Although tiny, atoms are mostly empty space. The simplified model of the atom is that of a cloud of negative ...

Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...

To be awarded an official English Heritage plaque, the proposed recipient (nominated by members of the public) must have died ...

Isotope hydrology helps governments find and understand the source of their water supplies – so they can develop management ...

as closed-shell elements remained undiscovered until Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsey isolated argon in 1894. Remarkably, Ramsey then went on to isolate helium (1895) and radon (1908) and ...

What happens when a quantum physicist is frustrated by the limitations of quantum mechanics when trying to study densely packed atoms? At EPFL, you get a metamaterial, an engineered material that ...