SURELY the time has come to abandon the practice of attaching to elements fancy names arbitrarily selected by individuals. When names concerned: nobody but a small clique in constant personal ...

If you have ever discovered something such as a new theory or particle then maybe the most fun part would be giving it a name. So this is exactly what Sigurd Hofmann and his group at the Centre for ...

June 6, page 5: The bill to ban nontherapeutic use of medically important antibiotics in farm animals is H.R. 965 in the 112th Congress. Contrary to the implied statement in the book review of Hugh ...

Last year, we asked physicsworld.com readers to submit their best names for element 112, which was discovered in 1996 by Sigurd Hofmann and his group at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI in ...

It might be a surprise how much time and deliberation goes into naming elements — five more months will pass before the latest names are set in stone. For chemistry buffs across the globe, these names ...

I know very little about science, but I have heard of the Periodic Table of elements. Recently, I saw a comic in which one person was showing another person an unexpected item on the periodic table.

I know very little about science, but I have heard of the Periodic Table of elements. Recently, I saw a comic in which one person was showing another person an unexpected item on the periodic table.