Walker Smith, a researcher at Indiana University, presents his musical periodic table as a performance of his elemental compositions. W. Walker Smith and Alain Barker Earth’s natural soundtrack is ...

Chemists familiar with the history of the periodic table may be aware that Dmitri Mendeleev gave the prefixes eka, dvi, and tri (Sanskrit for “one,” “two,” and “three”) to eight then-unknown elements.

Some say he is descended from the Nordic gods themselves, others say he was raised by wolves deep in the heart of the forests. But whatever his beginnings, he attended the Robert E. Cook Honors ...

As a kid, Clarice Phelps dreamed of being an astronaut, or maybe an explorer like the characters on Star Trek. And while her path to a career in science was different than what she expected, it led ...