There are lots of different substances but only just over a hundred elements. An element is a substance that is made up of only one kind of atom. The atoms in a particular element are the same as each ...

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As the global auto and energy industries race toward electrification and cleaner technologies, one group of little-known ...

To expand the periodic table, it might be time to go titanium. A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged ...

As though it wasn’t hard enough to memorize the names and atomic weights of 117 elements in the periodic table, scientists have now confirmed a new one. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden ...

A memory chip just 10 atoms thick has been tested in a lab and integrated into conventional chips, demonstrating a technology ...

Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have ...

A quantum trick could provide sharper ticks for the atomic clocks of the future. A set of studies demonstrate that quantum entanglement can make the measurement technique used by atomic clocks even ...

Symbol equations are a quick way of representing chemical reactions. They show us what atoms are involved and how they are bonded together. Symbol equations always take the form, reactants → products.