The world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together ...

Mankind's attitude to gold is bizarre. Chemically, it is uninteresting - it barely reacts with any other element. Yet, of all the 118 elements in the periodic table, gold is the one we humans have ...

Nature special: The periodic table In the fourth century bc, the philosopher Aristotle formulated the problem in his Physics: how many times can a piece of gold be bisected before it ceases to be ...

Copper has been used by humans for as much as 7000 years and elements such as gold, silver ... line in the diagram of the periodic table above separates the metals, on the left, from non-metals ...

Take your pick from this collection of links about elements and the periodic table! Build an element ball, solve periodic puzzles ... A main goal of many alchemists of the past was to turn lead into ...

Certain elements (gold, silver) haven't gone out of fashion ... But no element on the periodic table has had quite as strange a ride as aluminum. Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's ...

Sorry, chemistry teachers—your periodic table posters are now obsolete. Groups of scientists in the United States, Russia and Japan had more to celebrate last week ...