Find out what makes some nickel ‘dirty’, where it’s mined, and whether it's lurking in your EV, battery, or solar panels.

In a letter published Tuesday in a scientific journal, a group of 20 researchers warn that 'this effort is politically and/or ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

LEWISBURG — The story of Shamokin Creek is unfinished business, according to retired civil engineer Dr. Steve Chrismer.

Rare earths are the world’s most in-demand elements. Marco Magrini reports on the battle for their future — and ours ...

These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods. Of these, 11 are essential elements that our bodies need in larger amounts: oxygen, carbon ...

During the process, they discovered something unexpected about this particular f-block element on the periodic table that could ... bond between berkelium and carbon has been obtained,” Berkeley ...

Take, for example, vitamin B12. It is made of six different elements: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, cobalt, and phosphorus. Or the mineral sphalerite, whose basic zinc sulfide structure can ...

Click to enlarge image. When Dmitri Mendeleev drew up the periodic table, he grouped elements of similar properties. Based on the number of electrons, a scientist can determine which group to place an ...

The periodic table, also called the periodic table ... The first section of Mendeleev's book dealt with just eight of the known elements — carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, fluorine ...

Though this particular list is, objectively, stupid—it still pays to be sympathetic. Ranking the periodic table is no easy task. Bismuth is—or at least should be—a no-brainer for the top spot out of ...