Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

Erik Pollock, a geoscientist at the U of A, is the lab manager of the University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Lab and the Trace Element and Radiogenic Isotope Lab.

Astronomers now have a much better understanding of the cosmic conditions that create gold, platinum, and other heavy ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like ...