Few outside the mining world could pick molybdenum from a periodic table. Even fewer could explain why the obscure element ...

Over 150 years ago, when chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was developing the very first periodic table of elements, he included several empty spaces. Mendeleev, a visionary ...

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

For dinner tonight, you are being treated to the tasting menu of a lifetime. The periodic table of elements. Which elements would you be able to eat? Which ones would taste or smell funny? And which ...

A new nuclear forensics technique enabled the rapid analysis of nuclear materials for most of the elements in the periodic ...

Boron, a chemical element next to carbon in the periodic table, is known for its unique ability to form complex bond networks. Unlike carbon, which typically bonds with two or three neighboring atoms, ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of ...

You probably studied the "regular" periodic table in school—but did you know there are more versions of the periodic table than just the one you know? The periodic table of elements has gone through ...

Things are so bad that there's open talk about blowing up the party and starting again. Liberal insiders tell PETER VAN ...