Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. There are some 90+ elements of the periodic table that occur naturally ...

Four and a half billion years ago, after Earth’s fiery birth, the infant planet began to radically reshape itself, separating into distinct layers. Metals — mostly iron with a bit of nickel — fell ...

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

Elements heavier than iron, such as gold and uranium, are primarily formed through neutron capture processes, specifically the rapid neutron capture process (r-process). The r-process, unlike the ...

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Experiments show how concentrations of rare earth elements, critical to the green energy transition, might be hiding in plain sight in iron-rich deposits around the world. When you purchase through ...

A team of Russian and American scientists announced today the creation of several atoms of the previously unknown element 117. The discovery of “ununseptium” will eventually fill a longtime gap on the ...