This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of one of the most significant breakthroughs in science, the creation of a tool that allows us to make sense of the basic ingredients of our universe, and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American We take it for granted that there exists a ...

At the middle of the 19th century, 63 chemical elements were known to science. Before Mendeleev’s discovery, attempts at arranging them in some logical way were made by Johann Doebereiner (1829), ...

Technological developments involves all aspects of life, especially the fields of science, engineering, and medicine. This reflects in the students and researcher a lack of using traditional methods ...

A chemical element is one of those squares on the periodic table that adorns many a classroom wall. Sure. But what is an element really? It is a more subtle question that you might realise. To get to ...