Our Sun will go through many phases in its life, creating new elements from others in the periodic table. But it can't make them all.

Those are two takeaways from a brand-new model of the periodic table of elements, debuted this week by the European Chemical Society (or EuChemS, a group representing more than 160,000 chemists in ...

The periodic table traditionally taught in textbooks, which organizes elements based on chemical traits such as reactivity, places helium in the rightmost column with the other less reactive elements.

If you were to take every element in the periodic table and order them by how abundant they are in the Universe, you'd find something a little bit surprising. The most common element is hydrogen ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Periodic Table of the Cosmos: 100 Years of the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 305 No. 1 (July ...

Both isotopes of helium share one bizarre property: superfluidity. Below 4.2 K, helium-4 becomes a liquid but then at 2.17 K it is a superfluid, allowing it to flow without losing kinetic energy. This ...

Helium, a noble gas, was long believed to be 'too aloof' to react with the other elements on the periodic table. Now, however, scientists have provided a theoretical explanation of how helium may ...

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. and BUFFALO, N.Y. — Helium, the second lightest element in the universe, has a variety of uses, from keeping balloons afloat to cooling superconducting magnets. It is also a noble ...

Elemental music: Interactive periodic table turns He, Fe, Ca into Do, Re, Mi. Hydrogen has a scale pattern; zinc "sounds like an angelic vocalist singing with vibrato." ...

Helium is the simplest element in the periodic table with more than one particle in its nucleus, yet state of the art theory and experiments on it don't add up.