After a breakdown in US-Russia relations, Riken finds itself ahead of its rivals. And Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

See if you can organize the first 25 elements of the periodic table in order in the quiz below. The periodic table as we know ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

The answer, at first, is boring: it’s a simple no. But the reasons why you cannot are complex and varied – some come from the ...

But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can ...

In addition to the potential for mining valuable rare earth metals, scientists are eager to learn more about their impacts to ...

Just four years before Mendeleev announced his periodic table, Newlands noticed that there were similarities between elements with atomic weights that differed by seven. He called this The Law of ...

Back in the old days—the really old days—the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of ...

Experimental observations of the half life of rutherfordium-252 demonstrate that its stability lies well within the limits required for full atoms to form ...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of Chemical Elements in 1869. In celebration, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ...