After a breakdown in US-Russia relations, Riken finds itself ahead of its rivals. And Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory chases element 120 ...

The periodic table of elements (often known simply as the periodic table) has been helping scientists with their work for a little over 150 years. The handy visual reference guide organizes known ...

Donald Trump made what looked like a typically left field offer to pave the way to a peace settlement in Ukraine. “They have ...

China outright banned exports of two metals to the United States following the Biden administration’s decision to further ...

Chinese table tennis players and officials have demanded a better deal for the stars of the sport in a meeting with the global governing body in Singapore. Changes to the calendar and competition ...

Chinese table tennis fans reacted angrily on Friday after Olympic champions Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng and Ma Long were all omitted from the national team ahead of next month’s ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup ...

The low-carbon transition needs batteries. And those need lithium. Fortunately, the metal is abundant, and science is getting ...

The U.S. can learn much from the ongoing war in Ukraine but perhaps there is no more important lesson than to reinvest in ...

The story of the last element to be discovered out of the first 92 catalogued in the periodic table is told by Eric Scerri, who reminds us that technetium can be found a little closer to home than ...