NORTHRIDGE, Calif. and BUFFALO, N.Y. — Helium, the second lightest element in the universe, has a variety of uses, from keeping balloons afloat to cooling superconducting magnets. It is also a noble ...
Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and ...
THE merits of a book on atomic and molecular structure can be judged by a very simple test. If the book merely gives an account of the personal views and impressions of the author, in the form of a ...
Despite rare earth elements' importance in manufacturing cell phones, magnets and a host of other consumer and commercial ...
You may have noticed that the rock formations are very different colors. The rock formations on the left are from Red Rock State Park in Texas, and on the right is El Capitan Mountain in Yosemite ...
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First-of-its-kind nanocellulose filters rare earth metals, reduces toxic waste
Researchers at Penn State have developed a plant-based material that can selectively recover dysprosium, ...
Which is your favourite chemical element? To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table, our science journalists will be arguing for their pick from the 118 known elements. In this instalment, ...
Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...
A pinch of arsenic, a dash of krypton, a soupçon of tantalum, and a whole load of copper—these are just some of the 76 chemical elements that go into making modern automobiles, according to an ...
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