It took weeks to observe the behavior of one and a half dozen precious, but very short-lived, atoms of these exotic elements.

For decades, scientists have looked for materials that could make superconductivity -- the lossless transmission of electricity -- possible at higher temperatures, such as room temperature. That would ...

New materials designed by a University of Illinois Chicago graduate student may help scientists meet one of today's biggest ...

The Elements by Theodore Gray iOS Animated by detailed, high-quality 3D graphics, The Elements by Theodore Gray brings the ...

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

The work by Hemley’s group was covered in the New York Times. But Denchfield didn’t stop there. He started to explore whether ...

But fusing a titanium beam with plutonium to create livermorium is just a test run for much bigger (or rather, heavier) ...

Alright, I barely scraped by in my science classes back in the day (let’s just say the periodic table and I had some creative ...

After delivering facts about metals and exuberantly showing off “cool rocks,” Laura Branch veered totally off the topic of chemistry in her Earth System ...

Marie Curie had an extraordinary life, but as Glenda Cooper finds out in this new biography by Dava Sobel, Curie also led the ...

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

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