So the chemical elements that make up cell phones are now on an “endangered list” created by The European Chemical Society (EuChemS). Related: Lawmakers are pushing gadget manufacturers with ...

Sitting at the bottom of this row of chemical workhorses, this spectacularly radioactive element would be toxic to anyone who came near it, if only it could stop itself from vanishing. In fact, it ...

The colors are so different thanks to one crucial element: oxygen. What Are Elements And Compounds? Elements are the chemical building blocks of matter. Everything in the universe that takes up space ...

Researchers have gained new insights into the chemical properties of the superheavy element flerovium -- element 114 -- at the accelerator facilities of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für ...

However, the element's decay also created other problems for the researchers. "It's decaying consistently, so you lose 7.2% of your mass every month when studying it," Carter said.

This may have been a result of the way the question was asked: Americans probably do know many elements' names (gold is one; so are other household names like silver, tin, lead, oxygen, helium and ...

Early in 1869 the Russian chemical physicist Dmitri Mendeleev was growing increasingly frustrated while preparing the second volume of his textbook Principles of Chemistry. Though his first volume had ...

By element 57, lanthanum, the electrons begin to enter a new type of orbital, an f-orbital. To account for this, most periodic tables hive off the elements making up this f-block, putting it below ...

So Damon and Kim were commissioned to produce a series of 51 artistic interpretations illustrating elements of significance in the story of the birth of the universe from the Periodic Table.