Some of the heaviest atoms in the universe barely exist long enough to be ...

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Uranium is a naturally occurring radioactive element which has the atomic number of 92 and chemical symbol U in the periodic ...

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A team of four outstanding students from Vietnam is attending the 60th International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad (IMChO) for ...

Melvin Durai Imagine you are waiting at a bus stop, reading something on your phone, when a student walks up. He’s also ...

On the far right side of the periodic table, just beneath oxygen, sits a lesser-known group of elements called the chalcogens ...

A new approach reveals unexpected ways oxygen can bind to rare metals. Iron plays a central role in how the body uses oxygen. In hemoglobin, it binds dioxygen, a pair of oxygen atoms, allowing blood ...

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Iron and oxygen bind together throughout the body. Most famously, iron binds dioxygen, or two oxygens paired with each other, in hemoglobin that transports oxygen through blood. But iron-oxo compounds ...

A particular silicon compound that has been sought by scientists for decades has been created by two separate teams of ...

Scientists have discovered 'berkelocene,' the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. The breakthrough disrupts long-held theories about the chemistry ...