Chris Bryan will give a talk to Friends of ORNL on Tuesday, Aug. 12, on 60 years of scientific highlights in the reactor’s history, plans for upgrades ...

Dive deep into the mystery of chemical elements. How are they formed, and have we discovered them all? Is there a limit to ...

Virtual-PeriodicTable is an open-source project designed to provide a customizable and interactive periodic table. Unlike many existing solutions, this project emphasizes simplicity and accessibility, ...

Why do the atomic weights on the periodic table keep changing? Kit Chapman meets the team behind the decimal places ...

The scientists knew that radioactive heavy elements broke up naturally into elements one or two steps lower on the periodic table — uranium, element 92, for example, became thorium, element 90.

​​In pursuit of prestige and riches, wealthy people across medieval Europe worked in vain to transmute everyday metals into ...

The chemical behavior of superheavy elements (SHEs, Z > 103) remains poorly understood. Their chemical properties are expected to deviate from established trends, challenging the predictive power of ...