The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has approved the name and symbols for four elements: nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og), respectively for element ...

Rare-earth elements are a set of metallic elements in the periodic table. Chemists usually refer to a group of 17 elements when they use this label: the 15 lanthanides from lanthanum to lutetium, and ...

Billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue has settled its bitter legal stoush with a group of its former executives, whom the mining giant spied on after accusing them of stealing sensitive information ...

At the start of the new year, nuclear chemists Hiromitsu Haba and Kouji Morimoto slide precisely 119 Japanese yen into the collection box at their local shrine. They are seeking good fortune in their ...

Synthetic diamond manufacturer Element Six and Bosch have set up a jv for quantum sensor production jv called Bosch Quantum Sensing. Element Six will take a 25% stake in the jv having collaborated ...

The two most promising potential element candidates are element 119, tentatively named ununennium, and element 120, aka unbinilium. These elements are so massive that they do not fit in any of the ...

For new, human-made heavy elements on the periodic table, being “too ‘big’ for your own good” often means instability and a fleeting existence. The more protons and neutrons scientists squeeze ...

To expand the periodic table, it might be time to go titanium. A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged ...

The third-heaviest element in the universe has been made in a way that offers a route for synthesising the elusive element 120, which would be the heaviest element in the periodic table. “We were very ...

Looking to be more upstart than startup, Element Biosciences has raised more than $277 million in new venture capital funding to help it take on the DNA sequencing giant located right down the road ...