To figure out if there’s a grain of truth to all these anecdotes, a team of German scientists at the Hamburg University, led ...

The periodic table of elements, or Mendeleev’s table, was created in 1869 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. This table organizes all known chemical elements by their atomic number, or the ...

Dmitri Mendeleev is known as the father of the periodic table, but his interests were wide-ranging and sometimes eccentric. We take a look at his varied and often tumultuous life. Dmitri Mendeleev’s ...

Another theory suggests that dreams are simply a side effect of memory consolidation —the brain’s way of replaying and reinforcing new memories while we sleep. As the brain’s hippocampus and neocortex ...

Haran’s posting features images of the business card and Mendeleev and another video, this one about Ernest Rutherford’s childhood potato masher. This entry was posted in science, science ...

In this collection we explore the history and significance of the periodic table. We cover its origins and evolution, from Dmitri Mendeleev’s groundbreaking arrangement to the modern periodic table’s ...

Lagerkvist, who was a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences and has participated in judging nominations for the chemistry prize, concludes “It is in the nature of the Nobel Prize that there will ...