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The Elements In Your Body
Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur are the primary elements essential for life, forming the basis of…
Unique Window into Early Element-Forming Processes Found in Stars Beyond Our Galaxy
At a Glance The universe’s first generation of stars was crucial in transforming the cosmos. These stars, born…
Why Is Mercury Liquid?
Mercury, a transition metal belonging to Group 12 of the periodic table, remains a liquid at room temperature…
Perhaps Faking Your Way to Discovering a New Element Isn’t Such a Good Idea
The fallout from the now-called “Ninov scandal,” which happened almost at the same time as another scientific misconduct scandal in…
Periodic Videos Presents: Helium
Periodic Videos is back, and Sir Martyn Poliakoff is here to teach us about the element that makes…
Periodic Videos Presents: Hydrogen
Sir Martyn Poliakoff, together with the Periodic Videos team, give a crash course into the most abundant element…
Where Does Gold Come From? Black Holes With Accretion Disks, Scientists Think
Earlier this year we at Modern Sciences did a piece on how the work of two bored astronomers…
How Two Astronomers With Some Markers Linked Us To the Stars
A very spirited Carl Sagan once said in one of the episodes of his 1980 TV miniseries Cosmos:…