Between your ears sits perhaps the most complex piece of biological machinery on the planet: an all-in-one computer, simulator, and creation device that operates out of a squishy, folded gray mass.

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This year is the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements—and today (March 6), the modern version celebrates its 150 th birthday. To find out more about the table and how new ...

How do gallium and tantalum influence your daily life? Quite a bit, it turns out. Gallium is a component of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, while tantalum can be found in mobile phones. Boeing ...

The 2019 International Year of the Periodic Table may be over, but we can continue celebrating the many ways that the periodic table can serve as an organizational tool, including as a guide for our ...

Present the periodic table without warning to a room full of people and the reactions are likely to be diverse. There’ll be those whose faces break instantly into expressions of warm recognition, with ...

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was not the first to recognize the periodicity of the chemical elements or even to construct a primitive periodic table. He did go much further than his peers, however, in ...

It says something about Dmitri Mendeleev that he had an easier time keeping track of the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom than the number of brothers and sisters living under his roof. The ...

On a stage in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris, Yuri Oganessian holds a microphone in one hand and a small remote control in the other. Over ...

University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. With the naming of four new chemical elements, it’s worth reflecting on their long and interesting history – and ...