From the burning of wood to the action of medicines, the properties and behavior of matter are governed by the way chemical ...

The US trade deal with China seeks to resolve a major sticking point of their ongoing trade war: rare-earth minerals.

Remember those periodic tables from our school science books? The ones with little boxes – Hydrogen (H), Carbon (C), Oxygen (O), Iron (Fe), Magnesium (Mg) – and that long, mysterious bottom row filled ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are using the 88-Inch Cyclotron to help steady the famous periodic table of elements one atom at a time where it's gone a ...

Known for turning science into fun, this pair also stepped into music with songs that teach in a catchy way. AsapSCIENCE, created by Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown, became popular for blending ...

A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly charged ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic clocks. The periodic table, first ...

Where were you when humans first set foot on the moon? When the Berlin Wall came down? When the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the country? People tend to remember where they were ...

To expand the periodic table, it might be time to go titanium. A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged ...

A collaboration between C&EN and Andy Brunning, author of the popular graphics blog Compound Interest To see more of Brunning’s work, go to compoundchem.com. To see all of C&EN’s Periodic Graphics, ...

Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...