By the end of the nineteenth century, the elements and matter comprising all things could no long be viewed as immutable. The dramatic rise of scientific methodology and experimentation during the later half of the eighteenth century set the stage for...

A chemical element is a fundamental substance of the material world. Each element has an identity; for example, gold consists of only gold atoms, and a gold atoms is unlike any other atom. Indeed, a gold atom can be split, but the particles that...

In chemistry, the term element applies to any substance that can not be reduced by ordinary physical or chemical means to a simpler form. Thus, lead is an element because no method has ever been found by which the substance can be reduced into two or...

Prior to the atomic age, scientists believed uranium was the heaviest element with an atomic number of 92. However, this was shown to be wrong because a number of transuranium elements have been produced. Today, researchers have created elements at...

A chemical element, or element, is a type of atom that is distinguished by its atomic number; that is, by the number of protons in its nucleus. The term is also used to refer to a pure chemical substance composed of atoms with the same number of...

The names of the chemical elements have received a certain amount of attention in Word Ways over the years. Borgmann (1968) presented a quiz on 20 transposed element names in the first issue of Word Ways. Other articles have documented more extensive transpositions...

The names of the chemical elements have received a certain amount of attention in Word Ways over the years. The very first issue of Word Ways in February 1968 presented a quiz on 20 transposed element names. Later articles have offered more extensive...

The family of former Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva filed a criminal complaint on Wednesday claiming the former leader was assassinated by poisoning in 1982.It named unspecified "groups of individuals related to military intelligence" under the dictatorship of the Gen. Augusto Pinochet, of whom Frei...

In a closely watched case unfolding in federal court, a jury is being asked to take up an intriguing question that has confounded many medical researchers: Can welding fumes cause neurological diseases such as Parkinson's? The lawsuit was...