After a breakdown in US-Russia relations, Riken finds itself ahead of its rivals. And Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can come top in our periodic table quiz. The periodic table of elements is a landmark categorization developed in 1869 by ...

This video explains the periodic table, which contains all the known elements.

Interactive Periodic Table Explorer: Discover elements with detailed info, dynamic filters, responsive design, and dedicated pages for each element.

Back in the old days—the really old days—the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of ...

Elements in the same group of the periodic table show trends in physical properties, such as ‘boiling point’.

The answer, at first, is boring: it’s a simple no. But the reasons why you cannot are complex and varied – some come from the chemical structure, others from the instability, with a sprinkling ...

Researchers have pioneered the use of parallel computing on graphics cards to simulate acoustic turbulence. This type of ...

We are taking cross-sector action in writing to government ministers, as the UK urgently needs a strategic, joined-up approach, led by central Government, for the use and management of materials in ...

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