The periodic table exists because, long before chemists were aware of electrons, they noticed patterns in the chemistry of elements and placed them in the same columns. Consequently, one can usually ...

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz ...

Can you name everything from Ac to Zr? Test your knowledge of the periodic table and see if you can top the leaderboard ...

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz ...

This last facet of her story is at the core of Dava Sobel’s new book, The Elements of Marie Curie, which follows 2016’s The ...

Chemistry students at Anderson showed up to school bright and early to carve pumpkins and create the periodic table of ...

Superheavy elements are those elements with a large number of protons in their nucleus. Elements with more than 92 protons are unstable; they decay to lighter nuclei with a characteristic half-life.

Our collective perception of flame is clouded. When asked to picture a flame, most people probably envision an orange streak ...

Students in Ms. Kelsie Lopez’s class at North Lamar ISD have taken science to a new level by constructing a lifesize periodic ...

1951: Edwin Mattison McMillan and Glenn Theodore Seaborg, "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements." 1950: Otto Paul Hermann Diels and Kurt Alder, "for their discovery ...

The type of semiconductive nanocrystals known as quantum dots are both expanding the forefront of pure science and also hard ...

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...