Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

Such questions exercised physicists greatly in the decades after Dmitri Mendeleev introduced his periodic table of the chemical ... charged entities called electrons — the first subatomic ...

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Where does the periodic table of elements end, and what processes give rise to heavy elements? An international research team has conducted experiments at the GSI/FAIR accelerator facility and ...