What's shiny and conducts electricity? The answer is usually a metal. Then, there's hydrogen, a colorless and odorless gas. At least at first glance, it's not an element that suggests metallic ...

(via SciShow) One of the most famous elements in the periodic table doesn't really belong anywhere chemists would like to put it.

The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard to overstate its importance ...

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...