As Class 10 Science exams approach, students are revising the periodic table using smart memory techniques rather than rote learning. The periodic table reflects chemical patterns, including ...

Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, ...

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if you ate elements from the periodic table daily, revealing chemical toxicity, accumulation, and biological effects.

Neodymium is a rare earth, one of the minerals near the bottom of the periodic table that are crucial for everyday life. The element is among the most valuable of all the rare earths because it’s so ...

Plutonium (Pu) exhibits one of the most diverse and complex chemistries of any element in the periodic table. Since its discovery in 1940, scientists have synthesized and studied many different types ...

You are entirely forgiven for not knowing this, since they are not especially rare — cerium is about as common as copper. The problem is that they’re difficult to isolate and purify; it wouldn’t be ...

When you enter the laboratory, you will find a table on the wall in the shape of the periodic table. However, instead of the element, there are numbers in certain squares of the table. While it is ...

ILL High Flux reasearch reactor: Cherenkov radiation visible in the reactor pool. Credit: Jean-Louis Baudet Einsteinium-255, produced through irradiation in ILL’s high-flux reactor, provided a ...