This is wonderful in the way that only an obsessive science geek with an interest in comics can make something wonderful: The Periodic Table of Comic Books. Welcome to the Periodic Table of ComicBooks ...
In 1985, Primo Levi was known in Britain and America for a single book, If This is a Man, his memoir of survival in Auschwitz. Then came The Periodic Table, which arrived in this country garlanded ...
Eric Scerri's delightful "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" follows the 1969 classic by J. W. Spronsen, "The Periodic System of Chemical Elements," but is a different treatment of ...
Looking for some reading inspiration this summer as you ride out the COVID-19 pandemic at home? Look no further than Nick Thomas’s Periodic Table of Element Books. Thomas, a chemistry professor at ...
To most of us, chemistry remains as mysterious as it did for our alchemist-obsessed ancestors in the Middle Ages. We were formally introduced to its "crowning achievement," the periodic table of ...
Imagine walking into science class and instead of learning about real elements like hydrogen or oxygen, you find a Periodic Table filled with your favourite superheroes! That’s precisely what The ...
Credit for the periodic table of the elements generally goes to Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, but a specialist in the history and philosophy of chemistry says the Russian chemist probably peeked at the ...
Before phosphorus became a common ingredient in lightbulbs and bombs, early chemists isolated it from urine — at the time, an at-hand source of undiscovered chemicals. According to a recipe by English ...
Remember all of the elements you learned about in high school? You many need a refresher. Scientists have agreed on the discovery of four new elements, completing the seventh line of the periodic ...