News tagged with periodic table

Livermore and Russian scientists propose new names for elements 114 and 116

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today recommended new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

A revolution in knot theory

In the 19th century, Lord Kelvin made the inspired guess that elements are knots in the "ether". Hydrogen would be one kind of knot, oxygen a different kind of knot---and so forth throughout the periodic table ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 21 | with audio podcast

Endangered species? Should cheap phosphorus be first on an elemental 'Red List?'

Should the periodic table bear a warning label in the 21st century or be revised with a lesson about elemental supply and demand? If so, that lesson could start with one element considered a staple of life – but growing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover material with graphene-like properties

After the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two scientists in 2010 who had studied the material graphene, this substance has received a lot of attention.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

It's true! Scientists HAVE written the world's smallest periodic table

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2012 Guinness World Records has been published and confirms that scientists at The University of Nottingham hold the record for writing the world’s smallest periodic table. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Looking back into the Big Bang

A Q&A with physicist William Trischuk about the Large Hadron Collider.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6

After three years of review, two new elements finally added to the Periodic Table

(PhysOrg.com) -- After three years of review, a committee representing the governing bodies of both chemistry and physics, has published a paper on Pure and Applied Chemistry, accepting the work of a coll ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

YouTube chemistry sensations share formula for success

It started on an impulse, made unlikely YouTube stars of its scientific presenters and has grown to a global audience of more than 15 million.

Chemistry / Other

created May 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Musical chairs around the periodic table

Life on Earth is composed of a handful of essential elements from the periodic table. Recently, one group of researchers claimed that this ingredient list should be expanded, having found a bacteria that presumably ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Periodic table of shapes to give a new dimension to maths (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematicians are creating their own version of the periodic table that will provide a vast directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions, linking ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Valentine's Day can be scientific, romantic

Who said there is no romance in science? Well there is, and it comes in many different chemical compounds!

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How do you make lithium melt in the cold?

Sophisticated tools allow scientists to subject the basic elements of matter to conditions drastic enough to modify their behavior. By doing this, they can expand our understanding of matter. A research team including three ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Smallest periodic table fits on the side of human hair (w/ Video)

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have written what they believe is the world's smallest periodic table -- on the side of a human hair. The table is so small that a million of them could be replicated ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Atomic weights of 10 elements on periodic table about to make an historic change

For the first time in history, a change will be made to the atomic weights of some elements listed on the Periodic table of the chemical elements posted on walls of chemistry classrooms and on the inside covers ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

An Alchemist's Dream: Superatoms Mimic Elements

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Will Castleman and his team have discovered clusters of atoms that mimic some of the properties of other elements. Called "superatoms," these clusters of atoms behave like a single "superatom" ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3