The very first element on the Periodic Table may be the key to solving mysteries hiding inside the atom’s nucleus. Nuclear ...

The periodic table, also called the periodic table of elements, is an organized arrangement of the 118 known chemical elements. The chemical elements are arranged from left to right and top to bottom ...

Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...

(CNN) — As a kid, Clarice Phelps often turned to one image for inspiration. While other seventh graders hung ’90s pop band and movie posters on their walls, Phelps put up a poster of Mae Jemison, the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Clarice Phelps is the first Black woman to help discover a new periodic table element. "Taking a seat at the periodic table didn't happen overnight, it was actually a 20-year ...

It isn’t carbon, it isn’t nickel, it sure as heck ain’t gold — it doesn’t even have a formal name. But never mind that. The newly created superheavy element, announced today in a paper published in ...