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Take a look at the periodic table and you’ll find that almost all the elements up to the atomic number 94 occur on Earth in relatively decent amounts. In addition, nuclear physicists can prepare ...

Gold hiding within pyrite is sometimes referred to as "invisible gold", because it is not observable with standard microscopes. (David Gray / Getty) Auto news: While ...

The periodic table lists 118 different chemical elements. And yet, for thousands of years, humans have really, really liked one of them in particular: gold. Gold has been used as money for millennia, ...

Did you know that gold also comes from stars? While the majority of stars are made primarily of hydrogen and helium, they also contain other elements, which astrophysicists call a star's metallicity.

An illustration of the neutron capture process. Credit: Carnegie Institution of Science. Astrophysics has managed to paint a pretty accurate picture of how the elements were formed. Hydrogen and ...