The rare radioactive substance made its way from the United States to Russia on a commercial flight in June 2009. Customs officers balked at accepting the package, which was ensconced in lead ...

“The periodic table tells us a story – its aim to understand the essence of all things,” said UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay in her introductory speech at the opening ceremony of the ...

A committee of international chemists and physicists has officially added two new elements to the periodic table: the ultraweighty elements 114 and 116. [partner id ...

Gluon? Quark? Neutrino? Is this an alien language? Despite being Greek to us, these are the names of the building blocks of all the matter that we can see and touch. Air, water, plastic, oil, mother ...

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of 4 new elements, which will fill in the missing elements from the periodic table’s seventh row. The scientists from the United States, Japan, and Russia who ...

For those who celebrate the Lunar New Year, 2019 is the year of the pig. But for chemists around the world, 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of the periodic table by Mendeleev ...

The mood at Bäckaskog Castle in southern Sweden should have been upbeat when chemists and physicists gathered there for a symposium in May 2016. The meeting, sponsored by the Nobel Foundation, offered ...

The periodic table of chemical elements hangs in front of chemistry classrooms worldwide and is an icon for science. Yet much was unknown about its history -- until now. The periodic table reflects ...

Eric Scerri's delightful "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" follows the 1969 classic by J. W. Spronsen, "The Periodic System of Chemical Elements," but is a different treatment of ...

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