Lithium and other elements that the U.S. needs for vital defense, energy and other applications could become harder to obtain if the Trump administration goes ahead with tariffs and other ...

A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that for several days during the fires, lead levels in the air just south of the Eaton Canyon Fire increased roughly 110-fold ...

An international research collaboration has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about ...

Vintage dishes can boast beautiful intricate designs, but they are also more likely to contain one toxic element.

An international team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new method for analyzing ...

Relying on leading-edge germanium detectors developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National ...

Neo recycles a few dozen tons of high-purity gallium a year, mostly from semiconductor chip manufacturing scrap, at a factory in Ontario, Canada. In North America, it’s the only industrial-scale ...

Rag Mayur, who shot to fame with his portrayal of Maridesh Babu in the indie hit Cinema Bandi, has played memorable ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster ...

February 7 is National Periodic Table Day, when we celebrate the efforts of scientists over the centuries to figure out how different elements ...

Lead and Bismuth are commonly used as ... of subatomic interactions in these newly synthesized elements. With continued research and technological progress, further changes to the periodic table are ...