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Answer: Crust, mantle and core 4. Question: How many elements are on the periodic table? Answer: 118 5. Question: What do you call an animal that eats a variety of other organisms, including plants, ...

While there are over a hundred known elements, the vast majority of the material on Earth is composed of just a handful of ...

Scientists have discovered the elusive properties hidden within promethium, a rare earth element that has remained largely ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

Erik Pollock, a geoscientist at the U of A, is the lab manager of the University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Lab and the Trace Element and Radiogenic Isotope Lab.

Sculptor Sir Antony Gormley and poet laureate Simon Armitage have worked together on a new public artwork in Oxford. The University of Oxford will dedicate the artwork, a cast iron door, to Henry ...