“Before the first stars exploded, there was no water in the Universe because there was no oxygen. Only very simple nuclei ...

The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.

The surprise discovery that one of the lightest elements in the Universe can bind to iron under high pressure to form iron ...

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

Researchers from Japan and Taiwan reveal for the first time that helium, usually considered chemically inert, can bond with iron under high pressures. They used a laser-heated diamond anvil cell to ...

Researchers from Japan and Taiwan reveal for the first time that helium, usually considered chemically inert, can bond with iron under high pressures ...

Deuterium (heavy hydrogen), for instance, has one proton and one neutron in its nucleus. When two deuterium nuclei are fused together, they form a helium nucleus (two protons and two neutrons ...

Chinese scientists sustain plasma at 100 million degrees C for 1,066 seconds in EAST, advancing nuclear fusion research.

A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

Single protons—hydrogen nuclei—are fused in a series ... and release energetic gamma rays and very fast-moving neutrons and helium nuclei. Those gamma rays and helium nuclei ...

It has two protons and one neutron, as opposed to the two protons and two neutrons of 4 He (which is the product of ...