Joining the ranks of carbon, selenium, sulfur and 24 others as an essential element for animal life is element 35 – bromine – long considered inessential to life and moreso, shunned as a toxic disease ...

Bromine has become the 28<sup>th chemical element to be declared essential for the existence of life. Scientists writing in the journal Cell found that of the 92 naturally occurring chemical elements ...

Many chemical elements behave quite differently depending on the compound they are found in, but Matt Rattley argues that bromine does so in a particularly striking manner. Every element is a little ...