Milk, cheese, yogurt, spinach, almonds. What element do they all have in common? It's calcium of course! But whilst most off us immediately think of food when someone mentions calcium (and I ...

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

In recent decades, researchers have pushed the boundaries of the periodic table, synthesizing the heaviest elements known to ...

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have discovered a new way to create superheavy elements.

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have developed the technology that could finally produce the fabled element 120, which would require the addition of a new row to the ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Last October 22, at 9:29 a.m., a bell rang in the main office of Yuri Oganessian’s lab in Dubna, north of Moscow.

Calcium is a crucial mineral required for strengthening bones and teeth, and supporting nerve and muscle functionalities. Although many calcium supplements available today are fused with vitamin D ...

With chemical properties exceedingly similar to typical nutrients like iron and calcium, toxic metals look virtually the same ...

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz, succeeded in determining the chemical properties of the ...

Most of the diverse elements in the universe come from supernovae. We are, quite literally, made of the dust of those ...

Additionally, it can detect a wide range of elements, from heavy metals like lead and mercury to essential nutrients such as ...

These data do not support an increased risk for adverse outcomes associated with concomitant ceftriaxone and calcium infusions in adult critically ill patients; however, our study was limited by ...