The seventh row of the table was completed in 2016 when Tennessine, Nihonium, Moscovium, and Oganesson were added. Elements ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

Recent sampling shows that a high-alpine tributary of the Roaring Fork River, in addition to having high concentrations of ...

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

Silicon (Si) is a metalloid, element number 14 on the periodic table. Like carbon, silicon has four bonding sites, but silicon is more than twice as heavy as carbon. The high melting point of ...