creating positively charged "trap zones" that capture electrons. Liu's team addressed these issues by introducing scandium, a rare-earth element neighboring titanium on the periodic table, to ...

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas ...

The ancient Greeks looked to use the four main elements to interpret reality and the world. Empedocles was the proponent of ...

Under ultracold conditions, bosons form a curious state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), in which all the ...

Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As part of the process, viruses leave behind remnants throughout the genetic material ...

Microorganisms also play a central role in the biosphere, through global environmental processes and recycling of elements and waste products. In biotechnology and synthetic biology, microbes are also ...