What if you took your school assignment to the next level and decided to collect physical samples of as many elements as ...

Critical minerals are going to stay in the news until further notice. So expect more headlines about metals you’ve never ...

Mitch André Garcia considers the disputed discovery of element 104 and takes a look at how the chemistry of this synthetic element is developing. Rutherfordium, the 104th element on the periodic table ...

At a Scottish university, the oldest periodic table of elements was unearthed, dating back just a few years after the concept ...

The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) updated critical minerals list now encompasses 60 different materials, representing around 80% of all the mined commodities on the periodic table.

In the “new metal era,” an increasing number of minerals are being classified as “essential” due to demands from defense, ...

Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain go prospecting for answers about how much gold we've mined.

Companies like Phoenix Tailings, which recently began producing metal in New Hampshire, are using new processing methods to ...

For decades, astronomers treated starlight and dust as a simple conveyor belt, a steady wind that carried the raw ingredients ...

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the French scientist, is known as the Father of Chemistry (Specifically, the Father of Modern ...

THIS book deals not with a special branch of physical science but with a general method and its applications to different problems. Its striking feature is the number and variety of subjects which are ...