What do magnets, smartphones and medical imaging devices have in common? They all depend on rare earth elements called ...

In chemistry, we have He, Fe and Ca — but what about do, re and mi? Hauntingly beautiful melodies aren’t the first things that come to mind when looking at the periodic table of the elements. However, ...

The experiment paves the way to potentially making an entirely new one: element 120, also known as the "island of stability." Pyrite can contain an in-demand element that has sparked its own 'gold ...

Although the Periodic Table of Elements is an impressive achievement of human understanding, scientists are still finding secrets about certain elements among its carefully arranged rows and columns.

You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding.

One of history's leading 16th-century astronomers, Tycho Brahe, was also an alchemist who kept the secrets of that pursuit under wraps. Researchers previously found that Brahe regularly consumed gold ...