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

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

Physics writer Emily Conover joined Science News in 2016. She has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, where she studied the weird ways of neutrinos, tiny elementary particles that ...

But that was enough. Element 113 was the first element to have been discovered in Asia. It was given the name nihonium after Nihon—a name for Japan that translates to “land of the rising sun.” Hideto ...

But that was enough. Element 113 was the first element to have been discovered in Asia. It was given the name nihonium after Nihon—a name for Japan that translates to “land of the rising sun.” ...

MONDAY, OCALA CITY LEADERS OPTED TO EXERCISE ITS OPTION TO TERMINATE FOR CONVENIENCE CLAUSE IN ITS AGREEMENT WITH TEXAS-BASED, DRONE SHOW OPERATOR SKY ELEMENTS. THIS COMES AFTER A DRONE SHOW ...

The seventh row of the table was completed in 2016 when Tennessine, Nihonium, Moscovium, and Oganesson were added. Elements ...

Silicon (Si) is a metalloid, element number 14 on the periodic table. Like carbon, silicon has four bonding sites, but silicon is more than twice as heavy as carbon. The high melting point of ...