It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

A team led by Prof. Zheng Tianlu and Prof. Wei Jiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), has developed a novel technique known as All-Optical Atom Trap Trace Analysis.

Scientists at CERN have achieved a modern-day alchemy, transforming lead into gold, albeit fleetingly, during high-energy ...

To validate their method, the USTC team joined forces with glaciologists Professor Michael Bender and Dr. Sarah Shackleton from Princeton University. Together, they analyzed two 1-kilogram ice samples ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

A team led by Prof. Zheng-Tian Lu and Prof. Wei Jiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), have developed a novel technique ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

In a new study, scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider in Europe have reported turning lead atoms into gold atoms for a fraction of a second.

Could it be that the alchemists’ long-elusive dream — transmuting the worthless into the sublime — has at last been realized?

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Despite being wrong, the ancient alchemists' beliefs did contain ... Related: 'Beauty' particle discovered at world's largest atom smasher could unlock new physics That means that collisions ...

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...