The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are also possible these days. The how is pretty scientific, but we can break it down easily. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles employ a method known as reverse electrolysis.

The question of where atoms come from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed.

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...

Anyone who has taken chemistry in high school knows that the elements that make up water are two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. With a little electricity, we can split up the atoms, and voila!

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

Among them are strange compounds containing phosphorus—an element crucial to life on Earth, but rare in space. While nitrogen-based molecules, like hydrogen cyanide, are found everywhere from comets ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...