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China today controls about sixty per cent of global rare-earth mining and nearly ninety per cent of processing. When Beijing ...

Take a nostalgic yet eye-opening look at 12 things Baby Boomers learned in school that no longer apply today. From outdated ...

The Deciem-owned brand’s The Periodic Fable campaign reimagines the periodic table with beauty buzzwords to expose misleading ...

Phosphine has caused quite a stir in the astronomical world lately. That was largely due to its (still hotly debated) ...

Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than ...

Many fans of Austrian economics know the MP Materials and US Rare Earth REM financing agreements will end badly with crony ...

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

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by using a titanium beam to irradiate a sample, could point toward the ...

When you enter the laboratory, you will find a table on the wall in the shape of the periodic table. However, instead of the element, there are numbers in certain squares of the table. While it is ...

Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both radioactive and rare presents significant challenges. The elements that follow ...

The periodic table is part of the bedrock of chemistry education. Students use it to look up values like an element’s atomic mass, and it serves as a visual reference for the trends in physical ...