Sir William Ramsay, the Scottish chemist who discovered several noble gases, is the subject of today’s Google doodle. The noble gases are a group of chemical elements with very low reactivity. They ...

But the periodic table didn’t actually start with Mendeleev. Many had tinkered with arranging the elements. Decades before, chemist John Dalton tried to create a table as well as some rather ...

A team of Russian and American scientists announced today the creation of several atoms of the previously unknown element 117. The discovery of “ununseptium” will eventually fill a longtime gap on the ...

“In particular, some observed asteroids surpass this mass density threshold. Especially noteworthy is the asteroid 33 ...