The last of the elements to be identified was isolated last week. Ever since bearded Russian Professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeléeff classified the probable chemical elements in 1869 and arranged them ...

After nine years of painstaking experiment, researchers in Japan reported yesterday that they have created a third atom of the element 113. That success, according to experts in the field, could see ...

Most of the known elements in our universe were created in the white hot cauldrons of exploding stars, and hurled across time and space for humans to eventually discover. For much of the 18th and 19th ...

Scientists from Russia and the United States have discovered the newest superheavy element, element 117. The lifetime of element 117, which has now been created in the lab for the first time, confirms ...

Recognize these rows and columns? You may remember a detail or two about this mighty table’s organization from a long-ago chemistry class. Elements are ordered according to their number of protons, or ...

Mark Blaskovich receives funding from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Wellcome Trust. He is a member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the ...