February 7 is National Periodic Table Day, when we celebrate the efforts of scientists over the centuries to figure out how different elements ...
Zahra Khan finds out how a team of scholars is working with the Gadigal to develop a chart that celebrates Indigenous ...
The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...
The seventh row of the table was completed in 2016 when Tennessine, Nihonium, Moscovium, and Oganesson were added. Elements ...
They are seeking good fortune in their hunt for an elusive entity: element 119. The periodic table looks complete, but it isn’t. The race is on to discover the table’s next row of elements ...
Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...
The main reason for the molecule falling apart is that a lot of the heavier elements are not stable. Oganesson, which is number 118, has a half-life of 0.7 milliseconds. Number 116, livermorium ...
Lithium has been the apple of the mining industry’s eye as demand for electric vehicle batteries has skyrocketed. Now, the ...
Donald Trump made what looked like a typically left field offer to pave the way to a peace settlement in Ukraine. “They have ...
Like the periodic table of elements, which has enabled generations of scientists to predict the existence of yet-undiscovered elements and the behavior of those already known, the brain-cell ...
Recent sampling shows that a high-alpine tributary of the Roaring Fork River, in addition to having high concentrations of ...