A detailed history of the periodic table and its long interaction with warfare The periodic table is many things. It is an invaluable tool for organising the building blocks of the universe. Its ...

Six atoms may seem minuscule–especially if they exist for only fractions of a second–but they can have huge implications. The recent announcement that Russian and American scientists finally managed ...

Henry Moseley was killed during the doomed Gallipoli offensive in WWI Wiki Commons An esteemed group of scientists are calling for one of new four new chemical elements to be named after a "brilliant" ...