Rocks loafing about on the surface of Mars have been harboring secrets about the red planet's mysterious past.

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking ...

Scientist Stephen Jesse will speak Tuesday at Friends of ORNL on "Building Materials and Devices with Atomic Precision: ...

Boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen: these four elements can form chemical triple bonds with each other due to their similar ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

Einsteinium-255, produced through irradiation in ILL’s high-flux reactor, provided a continuous supply of fermium-255, ...

Earth appears to be a chill blue planet, but deep down, it’s really a metalhead. Its outer core is mostly molten iron (and ...

British researchers have found the key ingredient to life, water, might have been on Earth billions of years earlier than ...

The transplutonium actinides are highly radioactive and rare, making them difficult to study. To examine their chemical ...

German chemists have created the first-ever boron-carbon triple bond which opens new possibilities for molecular innovation.

Researchers are opening up new horizons in chemistry: They present the world's first triple bond between the atoms boron and carbon. Boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen: these four elements can ...

“Atoms are the building blocks of all materials, and the ways that atoms of different elements are arranged and interact ultimately determine the properties and performance of the materials that ...