If the asteroid belt is formed of pieces of the early solar system that didn't form a planet, and nickel & iron are mostly in the cores of planets, where did the nickel-iron asteroids come from?

You wouldn’t know it, because it’s hiding down there at the bottom of the periodic table of elements, but it’s a prank—something a five-year-old might do—and the guy who did it was one ...

The synthetic process of nickel-rich cathode materials, however, needs a high-dry environment, and the materials’ structure alters in moist air. In this review, we summarized the novel modification ...

Then along came Rutherford, Bohr, and Moseley, in the years 1911–1914, and scientists found that the place of an element on the periodic table (atomic number) was not just a voodoo hack-up, like ...

In The Periodic Table, Primo Levi — scientist, poet, writer — makes chemistry a metaphor for his life. ... In ‘Nickel’, this rooting in rubble prompts another hymn to matter.

I’ve been lucky enough to have my book published in a few countries now, and despite the universal subject matter—the periodic table—each country has had a different take on it. Some ...