author of the popular graphics blog Compound Interest To see more of Brunning’s work, go to compoundchem.com. To see all of C&EN’s Periodic Graphics, visit cenm.ag/periodicgraphics.

This video explains the periodic table, which contains all the known elements.

The answer, at first, is boring: it’s a simple no. But the reasons why you cannot are complex and varied – some come from the chemical structure, others from the instability, with a sprinkling ...

January 29, 2025 • The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which tells scientists about an organism's daily life.

How do we calculate mass and atomic numbers? VideoHow do we calculate mass and atomic numbers? This video is an interactive lesson in calculating an atom's mass and atomic number.

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature — if nature were capable of producing such a thing. How did ...

We’re closing out the year with a roundup of the science stories that stood out to our editors in 2024. There are so many species facing extinction—but today we’re telling stories about the ...

Jan. 23, 2025 — While climate change is likely to present significant challenges to agriculture in coming decades, it could also mean that crops such as chickpeas, ... Revolutionizing Ammonia ...

Jan. 22, 2025 — Scientists can now identify the most harmful pollutants present in UK waters that are having the biggest impact on biodiversity thanks to pioneering AI ...

How a Swiss lawsuit is recasting agriculture’s role in climate policy.

Science, and more broadly STEM subjects, have an unfortunate label too often than not, that they’re difficult to do, a bit nerdy, and boring in the classroom. This is not the case, and we at the BSA ...

A new strain of H5N9 bird flu was detected at a commercial duck operation in California’s Merced County. All the ducks were euthanized.