For the first time, astronomers have definitively ID’d a specific heavy element forged by a neutron star merger. Theories of physics have long predicted that about half of the universe’s heavy ...

Kilonova: artist’s impression of merging neutron stars. (Courtesy: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick) The first spectroscopic evidence that heavy elements are created by the merger of two neutron ...

Two neutron stars smashed together and shook the universe, triggering an epic explosion called a "kilonova" that spit lots of ultradense, ultrahot material into space. Now, astronomers have reported ...

Tracing the regional origin of everything from milk to invasive bugs is now possible thanks to a new project. A strontium isotope map means biological material can be pinpointed to distinct ...

Probing strontium: seeing the first evidence of "spin symmetry" A new measurement, made by an international team of researchers using the world’s most precise clock, shows that the quantum spins of ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - One of the questions that comes up every year after the Western & Southern/WEBN Fireworks is: how do they do that? When each element burns, it creates a different color, which is ...