A new periodic table design attempts to showcase how many of the elements needed for mobile phones are being driven to ‘extinction’. Taking on board the idea that a picture tells a thousand words, ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Elements with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118 have been added ...

A team of American and Russian scientists have discovered a missing link. No, not that kind, the elementary chemistry kind. On the Volga River north of Moscow, the team smashed together calcium and ...

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 ...