February 7 is National Periodic Table Day, when we celebrate the efforts of scientists over the centuries to figure out how different elements ...

The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...

A groundbreaking study by Rice University physicist Kaden Hazzard and former student Zhiyuan Wang has established the ...

The periodic table looks complete ... “you either need a lot of time or a lot of particles,” says Shaughnessy. To buy more proverbial lottery tickets, teams around the world are renovating ...

One group consists of fermions, which include matter particles like electrons, protons ... Most breakthroughs in particle physics or condensed matter do not show up on a kitchen table. These ...

Computer simulations of saturated organic molecules being bombarded by high-energy photons and particles have led an international team of researchers to propose fresh ideas surrounding how complex ...