From the burning of wood to the action of medicines, the properties and behavior of matter are governed by the way chemical elements bond with one another. For many of the 118 known elements, the ...

Every year, chemistry students spend Halloween morning assembling the periodic table of elements out of pumpkins beginning at ...

For the first time, a research team from the University of Cologne has observed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, ...

Many space-lovers know the phrase "We are all made of star stuff." And it's true - our planet formed from the dust cloud left over from the formation of our Sun, and from the planet, all life. That ...