Each square in the table contains ... position on the periodic table. It is this structure that makes it very useful to scientists. All element symbols start with a capital letter, but when ...

Some asteroids are dense. So dense in fact, that they may contain heavy elements outside of the periodic table, according to a new study on mass density. The team of physicists from The University ...

Great news, chemistry geeks -- the four new elements added to the periodic table last December have finally received their permanent names. On Wednesday, the International Union of Pure and ...

Naturally occurring superheavy elements ... listed in the periodic table — our current best catalog of 118 chemical elements — new research suggests. "If asteroids do indeed contain superheavy ...

In other words, it contains elements not on the periodic table at all. These elements would be stable around atomic number 164, which is far denser that Osmium, the densest known naturally ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ... this particular f-block element on the periodic table that could help us ...

One of the rarest and most mysterious elements in the periodic table has finally given up some ... called bispyrrolidine diglycolamide, which contains three electron-rich oxygen atoms.