Nobel Prize 2019 – Highly Charged Achievement!
The Trio of Lithium-Ion Battery Discovery Wins Nobel in Chemistry
The most coveted Nobel Prizes are known for awarding and recognizing scientific discoveries that have...
Copper – The Element We can Count on
From being the first metal to be manipulated by humans to becoming an important metal in the industry today, copper has proved to be...
Artificial ‘Tongue’ Makes Whisky Distinguishing Easier
Now, both human and artificial tongues can differentiate between whiskies. Experts at the University of Glasgow have built the miniature taster which can even...
Spinach does Make a Person Stronger; Popeye was Right
Popeye’s yen for a can of spinach before bulging his biceps has a genuine scientific basis, as researchers have found that the green leafy...
Secret Messages can Now be Stored in New Places
Lock your secrets in polymer pockets! Researchers at the Institut Charles Sadron (CNRS) and the Institut de Chimie Radicalaire (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université) have developed light-sensitive...
Lord Alexander Todd – Pioneering researcher of nucleotides
Alexander Todd is known for his work on the chemistry of nucleotides, his work on Vitamin B1 and for unravelling the chemical structure of...
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967) – Brilliant Physical Chemist and Scholar
Acknowledged as an authority on chemical kinetics and chain reactions and later on for his research on the kinetics of bacterial growth, the British...
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) – The Founder of Molecular Biology
He may be best remembered by ordinary people for advocating the use of high doses of Vitamin C for good health. But scientists respect...
Lead – The multipurpose element
Element number 82—lead—has been known to humankind for millennia and is one of the seven metals of antiquity, the others being gold, silver, copper,...
Gallium – The smart metal
Guess what would happen if you held a small piece of the silvery metal gallium in your hand? In a few minutes, it would...
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