Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas ...

The ancient Greeks looked to use the four main elements to interpret reality and the world. Empedocles was the proponent of ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

Not classified as an element until the 1780s, tungsten likely first popped up in German chemistry as ‘Wolfram,’ and Brahe’s ...