Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can come top in our periodic table quiz. The periodic table of elements is a ...

Just four years before Mendeleev announced his periodic table, Newlands noticed that there were similarities between elements with atomic weights that differed by seven. He called this The Law of ...

with the recent addition of four elements in December 2015. University of St Andrews Early periodic table chart from around 1879 recently discovered at the University of St Andrews This has made ...

Scientists have found a way to create superheavy elements, leading to groundbreaking possibilities in chemistry.

In recent decades, researchers have pushed the boundaries of the periodic table, synthesizing the heaviest elements known to ...

University of Liverpool researchers are part of an international research collaboration that has shed light on what happens ...

Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? Researchers report on experiments to come closer to an answer. They gained insight ...

Scientists might be close to producing a new, incredibly heavy element called "element 120." This element would be so massive that it would need a new row on the periodic table, which is the chart ...