Our bodies require other elements, including non-metal elements such as phosphorus ... These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments ...

Platinum and palladium tend to trade at a cheaper price than gold. Although palladium saw a price surge during the pandemic, ...

The modern periodic table, arranged in rows and columns, was first introduced by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. At the time, it included the known elements and their properties, but Mendeleev predicted ...

Whether it’s Greenland, Ukraine, West Africa or East Asia, rare earths are an element of the global geopolitical competition ...

President Trump has talked about possibly recouping $500bn from Ukraine - but exploiting its deposits of rare earth metals ...

‘I have a dream of walking into a chemistry lecture theatre and seeing two periodic tables – the traditional one and a periodic table in the language of the Gadigal whose land we teach on,’ says ...

The main reason for the push is that the rare earth element (REE) supply chain is dominated by China, and it can use that ...

On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements, putting them in order according to their atomic weights and inventing the periodic table.

Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments ...