(Natural News) As president, Donald Trump literally made the United States energy independent for the first time since the 1960s, and no matter how you feel about the use of fossil fuels for energy, you have to admit that for now, they are more practical, less expensive, and far more widespread than any other form […]

(Natural News) It’s not uncommon for cosmic objects such as stars to crash into each other. Such mergers generate massive explosions and send gravitational waves rippling through the cosmos. Mergers involving neutron stars are particularly strong. They result in a massive, turbocharged explosion called a kilonova that can be observed in nearly all space telescopes on Earth. […]

(Natural News) The origin of gold and other heavy elements has always been a mystery. A recent study by American researchers suggests that they were byproducts of a collision between two neutron stars billions of years ago. The researchers believe that their findings, which appeared in the journal Nature, provide unique insight into planetary history. Where […]

(Natural News) Strange crystals might form in the incredibly hot and pressurized cores of exoplanets in other star systems. Researchers think that these mysterious mineral formations may determine the environmental conditions on the surface of the planet, including the ability to support life. The planets of our solar system fall into one of two groups: […]

(Natural News) An international team led by Goethe University in Germany has successfully converted xenon ions into the heavy element cesium. The results, which appeared in Physical Review Letters, was the first to replicate this phenomenon in a controlled environment. A matter of stardust Nucleosynthesis refers to the creation of atomic nuclei, or broadly defined, the elements. According […]

(Natural News) A waste product of the fertilizer industry might serve as a rich repository of rare earth elements. Researchers have devised a natural way to get these resources from phosphate rock waste. Their bacteria-based extraction method caused much less harm to the environment than current techniques that relied on synthetic acids. The discovery came […]

(Natural News) In potential retaliation against President Trump’s tariffs and other trade war tactics, China could be on the verge of banning all rare earth mineral exports to the United States, which would immediately cripple a number of critical tech industries. Among the five “nuclear” options that Zero Hedge says China currently has at its […]

(Natural News) The last few decades saw the scientific community examining various compounds in search of additional diabetes treatments. One such compound is the trace element vanadium. According to health experts, the trace element can be found in many food sources, and can be beneficial for bone health when taken in very small amounts. Several […]

(Natural News) After iron, zinc is the most common mineral in the body. This mineral plays important roles in the functioning of more than 300 hormones and enzymes, and a deficiency in zinc may lead to various health problems. People with zinc deficiency may experience symptoms, such as brittle nails, white spots on the fingernails, […]