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A t the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact ...
While women make up half the US workforce, only 27% work in science, technology, engineering and math, often dubbed STEM, US 2019 census data shows; of those, only 2% are Black women, according to ...
Hey science, your posters stink. Mike Morrison, a Ph.D. candidate in organizational psychology at Michigan State University, is way too polite to say it that way. But that's the implicit message ...
Posters of the periodic table on the walls of science labs in schools around the world will need to be updated after the discovery of the newest superheavy element, element 117.
A new trend at scientific conference poster sessions is waking scientists up to the power of good design. But experts in visual communication think that we're only seeing the beginning of a new ...
By scientific custom, if the latest discovery is confirmed elsewhere, the element will receive an official name and take its place in the periodic table of the elements, the checkerboard that ...
Scientists often share their latest research on posters displayed at big conferences. Posters are a long-standing tradition, but one reformer says they're mostly terrible and need to change.
Industry experts and professionals are being invited to design and submit scientific posters into a competition with prizes worth £1,000 going to the winner. Twelve posters will be shortlisted ...
The world's oldest classroom poster of the periodic table of elements, dating to 1885, has turned up in Scotland.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced the availability of a technical poster demonstrating the capability of collision cell-based inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to perform ...
Countless periodic table posters are now obsolete. Meet the newest elements: nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts) and oganesson (Og). On November 28, the International Union of Pure and ...
The scientist already had broken barriers when she joined an international mission to do something else unprecedented: Create Element 117.