The periodic table is one of the triumphs of science. Even before certain elements had been discovered, this chart could successfully predict their masses, densities, how they would link up with other ...

Actress Leah Lewis voiced the character Ember Lumen in Pixar’s newest film, ‘Elemental,’ released June 16. (Disney Disney and Pixar Animation have never made a bad film, and “Elemental” is no ...

For five years, Dr. B. Smith Hopkins, professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois, had been searching through a gathering of old friends and nodding acquaintances to discover one of ...

A longstanding mystery of the periodic table involves a group of unique elements called lanthanides. Also known as rare earth elements, or REEs, these silvery-white metals are challenging to isolate, ...

The Chemistry Elemental Analysis User Facility offers atomic absorption spectrometers that can be used to analyze metals dissolved in aqueous solution down to parts per billion levels. These ...

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 ...

Since element 99 -- einsteinium -- was discovered in 1952 from the debris of the first hydrogen bomb, scientists have performed very few experiments with it because it is so hard to create and is ...