February 7 is National Periodic Table Day, when we celebrate the efforts of scientists over the centuries to figure out how different elements ...

SCIENTISTS believe they have cracked the secret of a perfect boiled egg — but it takes 32 minutes. Researchers believe their ...

Denzil Irving III, a young chemist, met his idol Jennifer Hudson in person, describing it as an amazing experience.

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Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered ...

Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...

Zahra Khan finds out how a team of scholars is working with the Gadigal to develop a chart that celebrates Indigenous ...

The low-carbon transition needs batteries. And those need lithium. Fortunately, the metal is abundant, and science is getting ...

After a breakdown in US-Russia relations, Riken finds itself ahead of its rivals. And Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory chases element 120 ...

A periodic table for cells The new study confirms many previous findings, from imaging and post-mortem tissue analyses, regarding places in the brain housing structures that are suspiciously small ...

The answer, at first, is boring: it’s a simple no. But the reasons why you cannot are complex and varied – some come from the chemical structure, others from the instability, with a sprinkling ...

The seventh row of the table was completed in 2016 when Tennessine, Nihonium, Moscovium, and Oganesson were added. Elements ...