The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying sulfur-based molecules in space, scientists are working to understand the ...

The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...

In a first-ever near-infrared study of a recurrent nova beyond the Milky Way, astronomers have discovered exceptionally high temperatures and unexpected chemical signatures, pointing to an especially ...

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that can track chemical changes in molten salt in real ...

Cobalt is a chemical element found in the Earth’s crust that has been used for thousands of years to create blue pigments in everything from jewelry and paints to glass. Today, the element is a key ...

"I was astonished by the unexpected results because they opened a new view on the first phases of galaxy evolution." ...

Side by side with this development of chemical theory has gone the discovery of new elements and compounds. Instead of the thirty elements or simple substances known at the beginning of the last ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...

Kathleen Stebe, Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), is tackling this ...

Researchers named the compound “berkelocene” because it is comparable to the compound “uranocene,” a uranium-containing ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...