Growing kids tend to repeat all sorts of colorful language heard while at school, yet there's one particular C-word that causes some parents to feel a special type of dread. Chemistry. A new teaching ...
Optical microscopes can help us see the microscopic world, but to use them to examine individual atoms is like measuring an ant with a measuring tape. An atom is way too smaller as compared to the ...
A research team has discovered clusters of aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of metallic and nonmetallic elements when they react with iodine. The discovery opens ...
Mysterious nickel gas detected in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing unexpected chemistry at enormous distances from the ...
A flash of light has turned a sheet of atoms into a dance floor. In a feat of precision physics, researchers from Cornell and Stanford Universities have filmed atoms twisting and untwisting in perfect ...
At the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they ...
One of my favorite childhood book series was about a couple of boys with a magical chemistry set. The main characters of Scott Corbett’s Trick series were constantly creating wacky potions that grew ...
CHENNAI: They click. Morten P Meldel and Phaedria Marie St HIlaire. Not just as husband and wife but as humans working in their respective spheres. While Phaedria, who calls herself ‘stubborn’, used ...