Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...

One feature of compounds made with transition metals is their intense colour. There are many examples in nature, including ...

Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered ...

Donald Trump made what looked like a typically left field offer to pave the way to a peace settlement in Ukraine. “They have great rare earths, and I want security of rare earths,” adding that Ukraine ...

Trump signed an order withdrawing the U.S. from the UNHRC, a 47-member international institution tasked with improving human ...

A roundup of events, announcements and community news from Meriden, Wallingford, Cheshire, Southington and the surrounding ...

Critica has established its Jupiter Project as what it says is Australia’s “premier” clay-hosted rare earth element resource.

Rare earths are a key component in the manufacture of microchips, which fuel the explosive growth of Artificial Intelligence ...

Italian scientists say they have developed an egg-cooking technique dubbed the "periodic" method for optimally cooking yolk and whites inside the shell. Eggs are cycled between cold water and ...

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 ...