The researchers tested simplified, subscale hohlraums — gold cavities that house the NIF target — which they iteratively made ...

For centuries, gold’s celestial origins remained one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries. Now, a ground-breaking study has ...

First clinical application of accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy outside of Asia Ongoing clinical trial is enrolling patients with inoperable, locally recurrent ...

Researchers discover new process for gold production in universe, challenging previous beliefs about element origins and ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth discusses a process called r-process nucleosynthesis in a ...

Scientists have long believed that gold and other heavy elements were created solely through neutron star collisions. However ...

The 3-D current density and 2-D magnetic fields during the pinch simulation. In the 3D image, the red color represents positive current, while the blue color represents negative current.

Rocket Lab USA beat on sales but missed on earnings last week. The maker of small rockets plans to buy a European subsidiary.

"The simultaneous detection in 2017 of gravitational waves by LIGO and a gamma-ray burst by NASA satellites from the same cosmic source marked the first time a binary neutron star merger was ...

Astronomers have employed the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the Neutron Star Interior Composition ...

There is a finite amount of gold and other heavy metals on earth because they were formed before earth came to existence in ...

Scientists may have discovered a new cosmic source of gold: magnetars—super-magnetic neutron stars that unleash powerful ...