This post is the third in a three-part series on how living creatures use the elements of the periodic table. Read earlier posts here and here, and learn more about the elements on NOVA's two-hour ...

Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have determined the crystal structure of calcium under ultrahigh pressure, which has the highest superconducting ...

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 ...