The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

A longstanding mystery of the periodic table involves a group of unique elements called lanthanides. Also known as rare earth ...

They are in your phone and your car, yet most people have never heard of them. As demand for clean energy and high-tech gadgets soars, rare earth elements have become more indispensable ...

The periodic table of elements, or Mendeleev’s table, was created in 1869 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. This table organizes all known chemical elements by their atomic number, or the ...

A grade 5 Covenant College student has set the Guinness World Record for fastest time to recite periodic table from memory.

Transuranic waste consists of soil, clothing, or other materials containing man-made elements heavier than uranium on the ...

Well firework colors are created by using a variety of different elements found on the periodic table, with some elements ...

Many industries depend on high-sensitivity analyses to ensure product performance and to protect consumer health and safety.

Rare earth magnets are in a lot of everyday items, and make a lot of your most basic electronics work, but they're also an ...

If you’re still looking for something fun to do this weekend after all of the July Fourth excitement, there’s plenty of events happening around Northern Michigan. Here’s what we recommend: ...

Having seen some clip or the other ‒ about rare earths ‒ almost every day in the leading national dailies, I was curious to ...

A new seaborgium isotope may unlock the path to discovering even shorter-lived superheavy nuclei through K-isomer states. An ...