Nineteen elements on the periodic table — including gold, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum — are getting their atomic weights adjusted. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) ...

Inscribed on an Italian family’s 15th century coat of arms and decorating an ancient Japanese shrine, the Borromean rings are symbolically potent. Remove one ring from the trio of linked circles and ...

For the first time those little numbers that appear beneath some of the commonest elements in the periodic table boxes are about to change from a single value to an interval of numbers An ...

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A magnificent period piece from mid-19th-century Russia has just received a bit of a renovation. Five elements at the heart of the periodic table will never look the same again, following an update to ...

IN the atomic theory put forward by John Dalton in 1801 the second postulate was: “Atoms of the same element are similar to one another and equal in weight.” For more than a century this was regarded ...

AT the discussion on isotopes at the Royal Society on March 3 the question was raised as to within what limits of accuracy the conclusion is justified that the atomic volume of the various isotopes of ...