From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Present the periodic table without warning to a room full of people and the reactions are likely to be diverse. There’ll be those whose faces break instantly into expressions of warm recognition, with ...

A computer graphic shows how the collision of calcium ions and berkelium atoms produces atoms of Element 117. (Credit: University of California Television) The scientific body in charge of chemistry’s ...

For the first time, a research team from the University of Cologne has observed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, ...

At the St. Andrews University in Scotland, England, the oldest " periodic table" in the world was discovered. A periodic table (element periodic table) in which elements with similar chemical ...

The periodic table is a chart that shows all the elements. It's like a big treasure map that helps scientists understand the building blocks of everything around us. Elements are grouped into ...

It’s another raw day in St. Petersburg, Russia, but the man striding down the University Embankment along the Neva River isn’t pondering how the icy wind off the Gulf of Finland chills his bones or ...

ACADEMICS claim to have found the world's oldest periodic table - after discovering the 134-year-old chart in a stash of old teaching equipment. The chart of elements, dating from 1885, was discovered ...

If somebody was going to make a work of art of that periodic table of the elements chart you may remember from your high school science classroom, Theodore Gray was the guy to do it. Even if your high ...