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, ...

The original — which is sung to the tune of the 'Major-General's Song' from Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance' — covers the elements up to Nobelium. The revised ditty from tech firm ...

Until 1220 when Alchemist Albertus Magnus discovered arsenic, mankind knew only ten elements—carbon, sulphur, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, antimony and mercury. In the next 500 years ...

Creating new heavy elements is a faint bit like working a pinball machine; it takes a nice judgment of speed. Last week a group of University of California scientists led by Professor Glenn Seaborg ...

You'll soon see four new names on the periodic table of the elements, including three that honour Moscow, Japan and Tennessee. The names are among four recommended Wednesday by an international ...

Chemists commonly complain that even though chemistry is central to so many aspects of life, it doesn’t get much attention from the mainstream science media. There are plenty of articles about ...

Long before there was a periodic table of the elements, there was no need for a table — just four chairs. From ancient through medieval into early modern times, natural philosophers could count the ...

November 08, 2017 - A little more than a hundred years ago, the world's fast-growing population was outstripping humanity's ability to feed itself. Mass starvation was only averted when a pair of ...

The overwhelming majority of the universe’s matter that we can see consists of hydrogen and helium. To create heavier elements, stars must do the heavy lifting of assembling their atomic nuclei.

A new element is set to occupy spot 112 on the periodic table. ((iStock)) Scientists are about to add a new, super-heavy element to the periodic table. "The new element is approximately 277 times ...