On the far right side of the periodic table, just beneath oxygen, sits a lesser-known group of elements called the chalcogens ...

A new approach reveals unexpected ways oxygen can bind to rare metals. Iron plays a central role in how the body uses oxygen. In hemoglobin, it binds dioxygen, a pair of oxygen atoms, allowing blood ...

Researchers accidentally formed gold hydride under extreme pressure, revealing that gold is actually a "reactive metal." ...

Miracle of Science Bar + Grill turns the periodic table into a menu board, proving that science and sustenance make ...

Carbon is made up of just one type of atom close atomThe smallest particle of an element. We often think of atoms as tiny spheres, but in fact they are made from smaller particles called protons, ...

HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env), a gp120–gp41 trimer, undergoes coordinated conformational changes that drive membrane fusion and allow immune evasion by transiently concealing ...

About 775 tons of trash arrive at Alachua County's Leveda Brown Environmental Park & Transfer Station every day. Electronic ...

A new study suggests rare earth elements form in magma above ancient subduction zones, as that magma reacts with substances ...

The University of Wyoming's Lauren Kim has solved a persistent problem in the cutting-edge field of high-entropy alloys, a ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now on its way out of our solar system, never to return. The comet was only the third-ever ...

For decades scientists have thought, based on experimental observations, that the lower a glassy material’s melting rate, the ...

Drug overdose deaths are plummeting in the U.S. in ways never seen before. Experts worry new, toxic "synthetic" street drugs ...