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 ...

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 ...

Kelling Donald receives funding from The National Science Foundation, and the Dreyfus Foundation. The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for ...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of Chemical Elements in 1869. In celebration, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ...

Nick Norman does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

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 ...

The United Nations has proclaimed 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table. The periodic table is more than just a list of known elements, it is a powerful tool that helps scientists ...

IT IS chemistry’s poster child. From copper’s conductivity to mercury’s mercurial liquidity, the periodic table assigns the chemical elements to neat columns and rows and so reveals their properties.

“LA république n’a pas besoin de savants ni de chimistes.” With that curt dismissal a court in revolutionary France cut short the life of Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, argued by some to be the ...

The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for structure and desires for credit. Formally, the modern periodic table is a systematic arrangement of the ...