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The Best Anagram Ever, and Other Silly Periodic Table Games
Sam Kean
June 10, 2011
7:18 AM
Antimatter and the Anti-Periodic Table
Tungsten: Could It Solve Our Space Junk Problem?
Sam Kean
June 06, 2011
10:06 AM
The Sort of Sad Death of the Mercury Thermometer
Sam Kean
March 01, 2011
10:19 AM
Arsenic and Old Life
Sam Kean
Dec 03, 2010
5:53 PM
Boron: It's What Makes the Hope Diamond Blue
Sam Kean
Oct 19, 2010
11:34 AM
What the elements look like.
Ununseptium: Ugly Name, Beautiful Element
Sam Kean
Aug 09, 2010
7:13 AM
Carbon: The Source of Life—and of the Longest Word Ever To Appear in Print
Sam Kean
Aug 06, 2010
10:58 AM
Tungsten: There's No W in Tungsten. Why Do Some Elements Have Such Confusing Symbols?
Sam Kean
Aug 05, 2010
6:50 AM
Bismuth: A Gentleman Among Scoundrels
Sam Kean
Aug 04, 2010
7:29 AM
Tantalum: Conflict Element
Sam Kean
Aug 03, 2010
10:59 AM
Francium and Astatine: Why Aren't More Elements Named for Places in the United States?
Sam Kean
Aug 02, 2010
6:59 AM
Aluminum: It Used To Be More Precious Than Gold
Sam Kean
July 30, 2010
8:45 AM
Radium: Cures Gout! (Warning: Also Causes Cancer.)
Sam Kean
July 29, 2010
6:49 AM
Hafnium: Building the Doomsday Device of Tomorrow
Sam Kean
July 28, 2010
6:53 AM
Cobalt: It Makes the Dirtiest of Dirty Bombs
Sam Kean
July 27, 2010
6:57 AM
Palladium: The Cold Fusion Fanatics Can't Get Enough of the Stuff
Sam Kean
July 26, 2010
6:48 AM
Thorium: The Nuclear Fuel of the Future?
Sam Kean
July 23, 2010
7:13 AM
Promethium: Uranium Stole Its Fire
Sam Kean
July 22, 2010
7:00 AM