Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and ...

Traditional chemistry textbooks present a tidy picture: Atoms in molecules occupy fixed positions, connected by rigid rods. A ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...

THE Faraday Lecture to the Chemical Society was given at the Royal Institution on February 12 by Lord Rutherford. The title was “Radioactivity and Atomic Structure”; but Lord Rutherford, rightly, was ...

As Class 10 Science exams approach, students are revising the periodic table using smart memory techniques rather than rote ...

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

Ferdinand Reich, born 1799; in 1863, codiscovered indium (In,49). Svante A. Arrhenius, born 1859, developed theory of electrolytic dissociation; researched viscosity ...