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 ...

A team has succeeded in computing how atomic nuclei of the Calcium element behave in collisions with electrons. Results agree very well with available experimental data. For the first time, a ...

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 ...

Publishing companies are having a hard time keeping their periodic tables up to date these days. In the past decade, labs around the world have been adding new boxes to the end of the venerable chart ...

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 ...

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. In a cramped ...