Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

Mercury is the most beautiful element in the periodic table. And the most reviled. UCL chemist and broadcaster, Professor Andrea Sella, explores the mysterious world of mercury and explains why in his ...

Mercury freezes at roughly minus 38.8 degrees Celsius, a temperature so far below everyday conditions that the silvery ...

There are only a few developments that have organized the way we see the world. There is the classification system of the life sciences, which separated the natural world into kingdoms. There is the ...

NEW YORK — They exist for only seconds at most in real life, but they’ve gained immortality in chemistry: Two new elements have been added to the periodic table. The elements were recognized by an ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...