Promethium is extremely rare: only about 0.5 kg occurs naturally in the Earth’s crust at any time. Conceptual art shows the rare earth element promethium in a vial surrounded by an organic ligand. Image credits: Jacqueline DeMink / Thomas Dyke / ORNL. Promethium, discovered in 1945 at Clinton Laboratories, is a lanthanide element with the … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — To those who have gathered throughout the centuries at Stonehenge – the imposing prehistoric monument that knew it dominated the Salisbury Plain in south-west England for some 4,500 years – it was probably … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Michael Vanden Berg, a geologist with the Utah Geological Survey, examines a coal outcrop near the old Star Point mine in Utah. Credit: Lauren Birgenheier, University of Utah × close to Michael Vanden Berg, a geologist with the Utah Geological … Read more
By Caitlin Tilley, health reporter for Dailymail.Com 4:12 PM May 20, 2024, updated 4:19 PM May 20, 2024 Two women have revealed what it’s like to live with an incredible condition that has left them remembering what it was like to be a baby. Emily Nash, 18, from Ottawa, Canada, is the youngest known person … Read more
Scientists have discovered a link between a complication of the COVID-19 vaccine and the complication caused by a rare ‘cold blood disease’. The research, led by Flinders University and international experts, deepens our understanding of vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (known as VITT). Following the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, governments around … Read more