For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.

Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

Atoms come together in hopes of becoming more stable, thus making some of the most essential compounds we know today – carbon dioxide, water, salt, and acids. Atomic elements are arranged on the ...

During the s-process, Amberger explains, these excess neutrons are captured ... and problems tie back to the Periodic Table, in which each element has an atomic number indicating the number ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early ...

Since the universe began, it’s had hydrogen, helium and a little lithium — the first three elements on the periodic ... the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons).

The origin of the elements that follow iron in the periodic ... table is one of the biggest mysteries in nuclear astrophysics. As Surrey’s Matthew Williams explains, the standard picture is that these ...

To do this, a player must have accumulated on their Player Mat AT LEAST the number of protons ... as well as the arrangement of protons, neutrons, and electrons. HS-PS-1: Use the periodic table as a ...

MIT researchers found that different algorithms can all be grouped into a ‘periodic table’ of AI. The idea for the table was ...

An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest for more accurate optical atomic clocks ...