There are 118 elements on the period i c table, and you might think we are made up of many of them. But that's not the case; the complex systems that make up our bodies have a surprisingly simple ...

Creating new heavy elements is a faint bit like working a pinball machine; it takes a nice judgment of speed. Last week a group of University of California scientists led by Professor Glenn Seaborg ...

Scientists have uncovered hints of a world of new elements beyond the periodic table. A new study has found that ancient stars may have been producing extremely heavy elements that remain unknown to ...