News tagged with periodic table

Livermorium and Flerovium join the periodic table of elements

(Phys.org) -- The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today officially approved new names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

On early Earth, iron may have performed magnesium's RNA folding job

On the periodic table of the elements, iron and magnesium are far apart. But new evidence suggests that 3 billion years ago, iron did the chemical work now done by magnesium in helping RNA fold and function ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast