Joseph Conrad once called the Congo "the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience"—which, boy, is saying something. Unfortunately, we've had little reason to ...

A few weeks ago I explained how five chemical elements came to be named for Greek and Roman gods. Let’s feast again at the periodic table and discover the mythological origins of five more elements.

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

You have likely never paid much attention to tantalum when you’ve gazed at the periodic table. It sits there, in the middle of a sea of transition metals, kind of out of the way and in the corner. And ...

As of 2019, the Periodic Table of the Elements has been around for 150 years. Maybe you've felt a certain chemistry with 2019 but don't know why? Maybe it's because this year marks the 150th ...

The inventor Buckminster Fuller once described technological progress as “ephemeralization.” Sunbeams and breezes are replacing coal and oil as energy sources, brands are more important than buildings ...

In a significant breakthrough for the scientific community, a new element has been confirmed on the periodic table. This discovery holds potential implications for a wide range of scientific fields, ...

Chemistry textbooks as we know it are officially out of date, as four new elements will soon be added to the periodic table. Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 have formally been recognized by the ...

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For now, they're known by working names, like ununseptium and ununtrium — two of the four new chemical elements whose discovery has been officially verified. The elements with atomic numbers 113, 115, ...

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