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 ...

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

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

You probably studied the "regular" periodic table in school—but did you know there are more versions of the periodic table than just the one you know? The periodic table of elements has gone through ...

Things are so bad that there's open talk about blowing up the party and starting again. Liberal insiders tell PETER VAN ...

Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. The fate of some ...