Which is your favourite chemical element? To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table, our science journalists will be arguing for their pick from the 118 known elements. In this instalment, ...

Helium, a noble gas, was long believed to be 'too aloof' to react with the other elements on the periodic table. Now, however, scientists have provided a theoretical explanation of how helium may be ...

Since the invention of the periodic table 150 years ago this month, scientists have worked to fill in the rows of elements and make sense of their properties. But researchers have also pursued a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The bubbly new chart of life's building blocks is more than a cool curiosity; according to ...

Hunting for (alpha,n) reactions: The experimental set-up in the ISAC-II hall at TRIUMF. (Courtesy: M Williams) New measurements by physicists from the University of Surrey in the UK have shed fresh ...

One of nature's simplest elements is giving scientists a big headache after new research shows that protons and neutrons in helium atoms are not behaving as theory suggests they should. The mismatch ...

In chemistry, we have He, Fe and Ca — but what about do, re and mi? Hauntingly beautiful melodies aren’t the first things that come to mind when looking at the periodic table of the elements. However, ...