The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

Learn about the new perspective on Earth's reduction of moderately volatile elements, a discovery made possible by meteorites ...

Zahra Khan finds out how a team of scholars is working with the Gadigal to develop a chart that celebrates Indigenous ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered ...

Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...

The chemical characteristics of the elements can equally well be studied ... into each other (period-relationship), thus e. g. the iron- group embraces Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, CU.

Alloying, the art of blending metals with other elements, has long been a cornerstone ... with their positions and chemical composition being critical to material properties.

Metals are electropositive chemical elements, and as such have a propensity ... as well as calcium, magnesium, iron and copper. Iron–sulfur clusters are essential protein cofactors synthesized ...