In a significant breakthrough for the scientific community, a new element has been confirmed on the periodic table. This discovery holds potential implications for a wide range of scientific fields, ...

Scientists have discovered 118 elements so far. But middle school science teachers may have to put a new periodic table poster on their classroom walls, because researchers at the Berkeley Lab have ...

A longstanding mystery of the periodic table involves a group of unique elements called lanthanides. Also known as rare earth elements, or REEs, these silvery-white metals are challenging to isolate, ...

Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...

Elements in group 1 and group 2 are metals. Atoms of group 1 elements have one electron in their outer shell, and atoms of group 2 elements have two electrons in their outer shell. Elements in groups ...

Four new names are going to be added to the periodic table of elements, according to NBC News. Three of the new elements will honor Moscow, Japan and Tennessee. The fourth is named for Russian ...