Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The ...

Currently, there are 118 known elements on the periodic table, from hydrogen all the way to oganesson, which was officially ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

Research on moscovium and nihonium shows they are more reactive than flerovium and subject to notable relativistic effects, ...

Can France claim the first periodic table? Probably not ... And over the next 15 years, three of these elements were discovered and Mendeleev’s predictions shown to be incredibly accurate. The table ...

In recent decades, researchers have pushed the boundaries of the periodic table, synthesizing the heaviest elements known to ...

This year, the periodic table of chemical elements celebrates its 150th birthday ... which weren't necessarily determined to the right accuracy at the time," says Dr Wothers.

Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

Fermium studies indicate nuclear shell effects diminish as nuclear mass increases, emphasizing macroscopic influences in ...

Electronegativity, an essential characteristic of all elements in the periodic table, measures an atom's ability to attract ... the predictions made with Pauling's scale had a rather low accuracy.

Researchers from the University of Liverpool are part of an international collaboration that has made significant advances in ...