We’ve reached the limit of a very successful way to make new elements in the lab. In new research, scientists unveil a new take on that technology and report its success. The heaviest elements could ...

Scientists have discovered 118 elements so far. But middle school science teachers may have to put a new periodic table poster on their classroom walls, because researchers at the Berkeley Lab have ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Clarice Phelps describes nuclear chemistry a little differently than most people would. “I got it relatively quickly, and it was easy, and I liked it, and it just kind of ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have found the heaviest element ever detected in an exoplanet's atmosphere. The researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) used the Echelle ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Many of us remember a time when the periodic table appeared with some curious blank spots. Your age determines what those blank spots were, but ...