National Periodic Table Day, observed annually on February 7, honors one of the most significant achievements in scientific ...

February 7 is National Periodic Table Day, when we celebrate the efforts of scientists over the centuries to figure out how different elements ...

Zahra Khan finds out how a team of scholars is working with the Gadigal to develop a chart that celebrates Indigenous ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after assessing almost 4,000 such events captured in detail by a next-gen ...

The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...

The periodic table looks complete ... creating a doubly magic isotope. Together, these properties make it especially good at hot fusion reactions. Unfortunately for the Riken team, calcium ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

Like the periodic table of elements ... resident protons their atoms housed but also according to their chemical properties. The latter likewise combines two separate series of observations ...