Billions of tons of silicon and oxygen surround us, yet one element hides in nearly invisible traces. It's rarer than gold, and most people have never even heard its name.

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Many heavy atoms form from a supernova explosion, the remnants of which are shown in this image. NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage ...

Snakeleev is an open-source educational game designed to help students learn the periodic table of chemical elements through interactive gameplay: a Snake-inspired format.

An element is what scientists call a group of atoms that are all the same, because they all have the same number of protons. Most of the universe's hydrogen and helium atoms formed around 400,000 ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has been getting bigger since the Big Bang. When the hydrogen and helium atoms ...

Astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, have identified an exceptionally rare helium-rich star, designated A980, containing germanium levels eight times greater than those ...