This post is the third in a three-part series on how living creatures use the elements of the periodic table. Read earlier posts here and here, and learn more about the elements on NOVA's two-hour ...

A team has succeeded in computing how atomic nuclei of the Calcium element behave in collisions with electrons. Results agree very well with available experimental data. For the first time, a ...

Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have determined the crystal structure of calcium under ultrahigh pressure, which has the highest superconducting ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Last October 22, at 9:29 a.m., a bell rang in the main office of Yuri Oganessian’s lab in Dubna, north of Moscow. In a cramped ...