Does your love of the periodic table extend to tying 200,000 tiny knots? That was the project that Jane Stewart of Surrey, England, undertook last summer. To honor the International Year of the ...

The news broke that a railroad car, loaded with pure sodium, had just derailed and was spilling its contents. A television reporter called me for an explanation of why firefighters were not allowed to ...

A new version of the periodic table showcases the predicted properties of 2-D metals, an obscure class of synthetic materials. Arrayed in 1-atom-thick sheets, most of these 2-D metals have yet to be ...