Today's supply chain depends on a global sourcing of a wider periodic table. Managing material shortages requires a closer understanding of the atoms.

New 'whirling' state of matter discovered in an element of the periodic table The strongest permanent magnets today contain a mix of the elements neodymium and iron. However, neodymium on its own ...

Physicists have filled in some longtime blank spaces on the periodic table, calculating electron affinities of the lanthanides, a series of 15 elements known as rare earths.

One in 5 Americans can't name a single element on the Periodic Table. Most Americans surveyed (59 percent) couldn't name more than 10 elements of the 118 that grace the Periodic Table.