As a young boy, John de la Parra’s idea of playtime entailed exploring the plants and crops of his family’s small farm in Boaz, Alabama. His greatest influence was his grandmother, who introduced him ...

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 ...

New frontiers: the new cooling technique could lead to ultracold experiments across the periodic table. (Courtesy: iStock/Eyematrix) Researchers in Singapore have used a magneto-optical trap (MOT) to ...

Lately, brands have been clamouring to find effective and engaging ways to use Snapchat. Comedy, product placement, deals and contests abound, but now General Electric is using our culture’s current ...

If you've ever wondered what the atomic weight of Babe Ruth was, a genius blogger is working to find out. Larry Granillo of Wezen-Ball — hands down my favorite baseball website — has created a guide ...

There are four new seats at chemistry’s venerable periodic table, added by international judges for work performed by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and in Japan and Russia. With ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Feb. 17, 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his first attempt to sort the ...

The seventh row of the periodic table is officially full. On December 30, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced that a Russian-U.S. collaboration had attained sufficient ...

Since element 99 -- einsteinium -- was discovered in 1952 from the debris of the first hydrogen bomb, scientists have performed very few experiments with it because it is so hard to create and is ...

A study of newly made chemical compounds is giving scientists a fresh understanding of an elusive element. A study of newly made chemical compounds is giving scientists a fresh understanding of an ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The periodic table of elements is a familiar sight to anyone who's ever sat in a chemistry ...