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

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Scientists have found a way to create superheavy elements, leading to groundbreaking possibilities in chemistry.

The periodic table of the elements This figure is a tabular arrangement ... The number of compounds is very large, yet this number is not unlimited, but greatly limited by the properties of ...

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.

But fusing a titanium beam with plutonium to create livermorium is just a test run for much bigger (or rather, heavier) ...

It took weeks to observe the behavior of one and a half dozen precious, but very short-lived, atoms of these exotic elements.

Students in Ms. Kelsie Lopez’s class at North Lamar ISD have taken science to a new level by constructing a lifesize periodic ...

When it comes to important elements on the periodic table, few hold even a candle to atomic number 6–carbon ... The study ...

19A. This clue includes two qualifiers, not one. The [Northernmost city in North America with over one million people] is ...

The newest movie to make its way back to the big screen is Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, courtesy of reliable re-release distributor Fathom Events. On Sunday, November 17 and then Wednesday ...