Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...

All matter–oceans, land, atmosphere, humans, animals, plants, food, materials, products, buildings–is made from 118 known chemical elements. These elements are ordered in the periodic table of ...

The most radioactive elements found on Earth include Polonium, Radium, and Radon. Learn why elements with short half-lives, ...

We explore if it's really possible that new elements exist beyond the periodic table. Adamantium, bolognium, dilithium. Element Zero, Kryptonite. Mythril, Netherite, Orichalcum, Unobtanium. We love ...

To expand the periodic table, it might be time to go titanium. A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged ...

From the burning of wood to the action of medicines, the properties and behavior of matter are governed by the way chemical ...

It’s rarer than gold and vanishes within hours, yet Astatine-211 may soon change the way we fight cancer forever ...

One of the proud achievements of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the discovery of three elements either by its own staff or in collaboration with other institutions in the United States and Russia.

Walker Smith, a researcher at Indiana University, presents his musical periodic table as a performance of his elemental compositions. W. Walker Smith and Alain Barker Earth’s natural soundtrack is ...