Find out how much of each element exists in the sea, in the sky, and in your body with Google’s interactive chart. Google Research team Big Picture has created a new interactive infographic to help ...

A computer graphic shows how the collision of calcium ions and berkelium atoms produces atoms of Element 117. (Credit: University of California Television) The scientific body in charge of chemistry’s ...

Still using an old science textbook? It's time to get a new one then, after four new super-heavy elements were added to the periodic table recently. The International Union of Pure and Applied ...

Six atoms may seem minuscule–especially if they exist for only fractions of a second–but they can have huge implications. The recent announcement that Russian and American scientists finally managed ...

The periodic table - the chart studied by generations of children and chemists - is to get a little more crowded. Scientists yesterday announced they are to add a 'super heavy' element, called ...

Scientists around the world are celebrating the latest entry to the periodic table. It has taken more than a decade for element 112, the biggest and heaviest atom yet, to be officially recognised. Now ...

Two scientists in Moscow have proposed replacing the periodic table as the chief way to organize elements. Rather than ordering by atomic number (the number of protons in the nucleus) the chart lists ...