In a quiet corner of a European museum, a set of stained crucibles and dusty glassware has forced historians to redraw the timeline of chemistry. When scientists analyzed this medieval alchemist’s kit ...

The surprisingly high amounts of chlorine and potassium in a supernova remnant could help solve the mystery of where these crucial elements come from ...

Using the XRISM space telescope, scientists spotted faint emissions of the elements in remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova ...

For dinner tonight, you are being treated to the tasting menu of a lifetime. The periodic table of elements. Which elements would you be able to eat? Which ones would taste or smell funny? And which ...

Over 150 years ago, when chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was developing the very first periodic table of elements, he included several empty spaces. Mendeleev, a visionary ...

A new nuclear forensics technique enabled the rapid analysis of nuclear materials for most of the elements in the periodic ...

As Pulsar Helium studies its namesake resource near Babbitt and Isabella, several other companies are hoping to strike ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of ...