I entered the Yale Medical Historical Library with the smell of tert-butyl methyl ether still lingering, phantom-like, from the organic chemistry lab I had just left. Tucked away in my lab notebook ...

Think the current Periodic Table of chemical elements are neat and elegant? When it first debuted in the mid-nineteenth century, it looked nothing like what it is now: it only has 60 elements and ...

In 1869, a professor at the University of St. Petersburg, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), devised a diagram in which he arranged the approximately 60 known chemical elements by order of ...

" Periodic Table" is a table in which elements, which are basic units constituting substances, are arranged such that their physical or scientific properties are similarly aligned. The periodic table, ...

CALGARY – A Canadian academic is helping to turn the tables on the periodic table – altering the chart of chemical elements displayed for generations in high school science labs by updating the atomic ...

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Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...

For those of us who care about things like beauty in science, we're witnessing a special moment in periodic table history—though disenchantment will come soon enough. In April, a joint ...

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