Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...

In this environment, Mumpower’s team suggest that energetic photons in a jet collide with protons to create a neutron and a pion. Since these neutrons are have no electrical charge, many of them could ...

As the U.S.–China trade war ramps up, rare earths are among the most important pieces of leverage that China controls. There ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the transuranium element berkelium. According to a new study, the electronic signature of ...

A high-energy photonic jet (white and blue) blasts through a collapsar with a black hole at its center. The red space around ...

New elements have come to fill the vacant spaces in his table, and there is every reason ... do not seem to present any relation with the periodic system. The physical properties of argon are ...

Ram Mohan looks at how bismuth — a remarkably harmless element among the toxic heavy metals in the periodic table — has sparked ... is distinct from these elements. The word bismuth itself ...

In 1869, Mendeleev's first periodic table did not include them, as closed-shell elements remained undiscovered ... One of the most exciting new applications is in xenon-ion propulsion engines ...

Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.