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In an unprecedentedly precise accelerator experiment, researchers directly observed how some of the heaviest known elements ...
From elements that explode on contact with water to those that vanish in seconds, the periodic table is full of strange, rare, and mind-bending substances. This video explores the most bizarre ...
Take a look at the first column of the periodic table. The elements in this group include some of the most common and useful ones on the planet - and they probably all wish they weren’t ...
Most elements on the periodic table have at least one stable form. But some don’t. Here’s how long those unstable members endure.
The periodic table of elements is key to how scientists understand and explain how chemicals behave. Chemists must understand the synthetic rare radioactive heavy elements in context, to ...
Element 99 — mysterious and exceptionally radioactive — sits inconspicuously in the bottom row of the periodic table. Named for legendary physicist Albert Einstein, einsteinium has been one of ...
The new superheavy, radioactive elements were added to the periodic table last year but given temporary and unremarkable names: ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctoium.