Scientists found tungsten in Tycho Brahe's lab, and they're not sure how it got there. A chemical mystery lurks in the laboratory of Tycho Brahe, one of the most famous astronomers of all time.

“Maybe Tycho Brahe had heard about this and thus knew ... The round towers protected his instruments from the wind. - Culture Club/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Art Images/Getty Images Brahe ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the medicines they cooked up in their labs ‘secrets’. And thanks to a study ...

The astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg ... Regiomontanus turned his house into an observatory and laboratory for instruments of astronomy. Early modern stargazers usually labored where they ...

Researchers performing chemical analyses of pottery and glass shards recovered from the laboratory of Danish astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe, have found concentrations of nickel, copper ...

A surprising scientific discovery in the remnants of Tycho Brahe’s workshop has revealed the presence of tungsten, an element unknown to science until the 18th century. During recent ...

Tycho Brahe, an astronomer, studied alchemy to help make medical elixirs. Researchers found traces of tungsten in shards of glass and ceramic from his laboratory. Tungsten wouldn't be isolated for ...

“Maybe Tycho Brahe had heard about this and thus knew ... While it may seem strange that an astronomer who created precise instruments to study the heavens and chart the positions of more ...