It took weeks to observe the behavior of one and a half dozen precious, but very short-lived, atoms of these exotic elements.

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz, succeeded in determining the chemical properties of the ...

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...

Laboratory collisions that create the superheavy element livermorium could help scientists to discover new elements.

LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - U.S. copper miner Freeport McMoRan will postpone its sales of refined copper from Indonesia until the second quarter of 2025 as a fire at its new smelter causes a ...

The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by gluons. It would seem, therefore, that it should not be difficult to ...

Traders refer to the price of physical copper as the spot price. Because these transactions are for immediate delivery, they’re settled on the spot. Copper spot prices are typically quoted in ...

The periodic table of elements is a landmark categorization developed in 1869 by the Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev. It arranges all natural and synthetic elements by their atomic ...

For most investors, gold and silver are inseparable, like peanut butter and jelly or two peas in a pod. This mindset leads them to look at gold for signals on silver’s future price movements, and vice ...

Copper prices are poised to reach an all-time high in the fourth quarter of 2024, with analysts from Fastmarkets projecting an average of $10,265 per tonne. This bullish forecast, the analysts ...

And the indelible image of a mushroom cloud. The atomic bombs dropped by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed the world what an apocalypse looks like.

Nearly eight decades later, as a leader of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of fellow atomic bomb survivors that received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, he renewed his plea to abolish nuclear weapons.