If you are concerned about the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, you may have heard about treatment with strontium. Some people say this supplement improves bone health, but it’s important to think ...

Strontium takes its name from the Scottish village of Strontian (Sròn an t-Sìthein), making it the only element named after a place in the United Kingdom. Adair Crawford in 1790 recognized that the ...

Strontium is a soft, silvery metal with a number of uses: It blocks X-rays emitted by TV picture tubes; it causes paint to glow in the dark; and it is responsible for the brilliant reds in fireworks.

Brian Resnick was Vox’s science and health editor and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox’s podcast about unanswered questions in science. Scientists are inching closer and closer to perfecting ...

Probing strontium: seeing the first evidence of "spin symmetry" A new measurement, made by an international team of researchers using the world’s most precise clock, shows that the quantum spins of ...

An experimental drug containing strontium makes bones denser and decreases the risk of fractures, a study of elderly women finds. The results add the drug, called strontium ranelate, to a wave of new ...

Strontium titanate was once used as a diamond substitute in jewelry before less fragile alternatives emerged in the 1970s. Now, researchers have explored some of its more unusual properties, which ...

Strontium is located on the periodic table in the alkali earth metal group, the same group that includes calcium. Strontium is used for a variety of indications ranging from an ingredient in ...