Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are among the universe's brightest and fastest explosions but their origin is not completely understood. A new study takes a closer look at the galaxies ...

Scientists recreate a previously unseen cosmic reaction and reveal how rare elements are formed in stellar explosions ...

It’s the same math that explains how, under the right conditions, the atmosphere above a barren plain can produce a roiling ...

The Consumer Product Safety Board warns that lithium-ion batteries in the recalled power banks can overheat, posing fire and ...

At Kennesaw State University, learning about nuclear energy isn’t limited to textbooks and lectures. Researchers are ...

With innovative approaches to life-threatening diseases and natural disasters, UC San Diego researchers are making critical ...

Researchers in the US have tested spin-polarized fuel in tokamaks to boost fusion output up to 80 percent in extreme plasma ...

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...

The Iowa Army Ammunition Plant was temporarily closed in March due to safety concerns over stockpiled lead azide. This highly explosive material will now be stored in secure, earth-covered magazines ...

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested 1. The ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider – or getting more helping hands on ...

Far beneath the ocean near Japan, scientists have discovered that the magma system linked to the most powerful eruption of the Holocene is slowly rebuilding. By using seismic imaging, researchers ...