(Nanowerk News) Here is our 'Slow News Friday' story for this week: Do the chemical elements, Mendeleev or the Periodic Table play any role in the world of music? Here are a few preliminary notes for ...

Scientists have long noted with interest that in one of nature's crucial chemical reactions—the oxygen evolution reaction—it is manganese, rather than more plentiful similar elements such as iron, ...

There are lots of different substances but only just over a hundred elements. An element is a substance that is made up of only one kind of atom. The atoms in a particular element are the same as each ...

The universe we know today is full of thousands of chemical elements. But in its beginning there was only hot, ionised gas filled with electrons and ions of hydrogen and helium, which buzzed around ...

When the Rosetta spacecraft swooped into orbit around a comet in 2014—the first mission to do so—it noticed something strange. The barbell-shaped lump of rock was shedding molecules of oxygen, and ...

Researchers have conducted the most complete analysis of the chemical composition and evolutionary state of a spectral type R carbon star. The presence of carbon is essential for the possible ...