A bonus element, the fifth most common in the human body, is calcium, which makes up 1% to 2% of humans by mass. More than 99% of that calcium is found in the bones and teeth, according to the ...

Oxygen is the most common element in the human body by mass, comprising approximately 65.0% of body mass. Most of the oxygen present is found in the form of water.

The human body contains 60 chemical elements, but we don’t know what all of them do. 96% of the body is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen.

Have you ever wondered how many elements there are in a human body? Would you be surprised to hear that today’s integrated circuits are more complicated (element-wise) than we are? As usual, I’m ...

The elements in the human body. While, by mass, we are mostly Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, and ... [+] Nitrogen, there are dozens of elements essential to life processes in the human body.

The elements in the human body. While, by mass, we are mostly Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen and Hydrogen,... [+] there are dozens of elements essential to life processes in the human body.

The Big Science Question: Depending on who you ask, our bodies are mostly made of water, oxygen or empty space (or £96,000 worth of precious metals and elements, if you are Benedict Cumberbatch) ...

Dr Joe Hanson, a science writer based in Austin, Texas, worked out what a single 'human molecule' might look like if the chemical elements that make it up were written out.

The six most common elements of life on Earth (including more than 97 percent of the mass of a human body) are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur and phosphorus.

Stars that go supernova are responsible for creating many of the elements of the periodic table, including those that make up the human body. Planetary scientist and stardust expert Dr Ashley King ...