Acrylic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all-carbon backbones that give these ...

An international team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new method for analyzing actinides. The method provides unique insights into the electronic ...

On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements, putting them in order according to their atomic weights and inventing the periodic table.

The modern periodic table, arranged in rows and columns ... As a rare and short-lived element with atomic number 118, Oganesson can only be synthesized one atom at a time, with production rates as low ...

MORE - UEFA Champions League hub — Format, schedule, more The schedule was longer, the table bigger, and we’ve now seen how chaotic a final matchday can look, with all 18 games played at the same time ...

Chlorate can be found in foods as it derives from chlorine disinfectants widely used in water treatment and food processing. In a 2015 scientific opinion, the European Food Safety Authority said ...

Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, P. R. China Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, P. R. China State Key Laboratory of ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom ...

Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday was peppered with many falsehoods — but the new president’s claim that the United States split the atom is one that caused international irritation ...

In this study, we performed a theoretical investigation of the role of transition-metal single-atom catalysts (TM-SACs) anchored on the hydroxyapatite support, where TM = Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu. We ...

This is despite the fact New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, who was born in Brightwater near Nelson, was the first person to initiate an artificial nuclear reaction when he “split the atom” in ...

A chlorine rash is a reaction to chlorine, which is often added to pool water to help disinfect it. Some preventive steps, including bathing after exposure, may reduce symptoms. Chlorine is an ...