The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

Two weeks ago, we showed off our favorite entries in C&EN’s “I Spy a Periodic Table” photo contest. And we gave readers a chance to pick a favorite of their own in an online poll. It was a tight race, ...

Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean covering his face as he peers at a piece of paper in his hand in Mr. Bean, 1990. Image via ITV Rowan Atkinson is a comic legend, whose 40+ years in the industry has seen him ...

The Periodic Table Restaurant and Bar, a Columbia restaurant serving contemporary American dishes with international twists, permanently closed its doors in late September. The restaurant announced ...

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Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are using the 88-Inch Cyclotron to help steady the famous periodic table of elements one atom at a time where it's gone a ...

MIT researchers found that different algorithms can all be grouped into a ‘periodic table’ of AI. The idea for the table was an accident that emerged from identifying similarities between two ...

A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly charged ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic clocks. The periodic table, first ...

The Laboratory in Blue Prince is home to two puzzles: the periodic table puzzle and the machine puzzle. Both puzzles are intertwined with one another — you’ll need to solve the periodic table puzzle ...

The periodic table is part of the bedrock of chemistry education. Students use it to look up values like an element’s atomic mass, and it serves as a visual reference for the trends in physical ...

Researchers may have found a way to create a new superheavy element, known as "element 120," which would be so hefty that it would need to be put in a new row on the periodic table of elements. If ...

At the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they ...