Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

Which are the heaviest metals on earth? And what are their uses? Discover the metal that ranks heaviest based on density and ...

Particle-accelerator study focuses on the r-process thought to be responsible for forming elements heavier than iron ...

In this environment, Mumpower’s team suggest that energetic photons in a jet collide with protons to create a neutron and a ...

Virtual-PeriodicTable is an open-source project designed to provide a customizable and interactive periodic table. Unlike many existing solutions, this project emphasizes simplicity and accessibility, ...

The research was published in ACS Energy Letters. Last year, UO chemist Paul Kempler and his team reported a way to create iron with electrochemistry, using a series of chemical reactions that turn ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that maintain life, said Donald Canfield, a geobiologist at the University of ...

Studying materials that are both radioactive and rare presents significant challenges. The elements that follow plutonium on the periodic table, known as the transplutonium elements, are both highly ...

IN his letter in NATURE of March 20 Mr. Soddy states that “granting the possibility of the existence of groups of elements with identical chemical properties and spectra, the only known direct ...