Two weeks ago, we showed off our favorite entries in C&EN’s “I Spy a Periodic Table” photo contest. And we gave readers a chance to pick a favorite of their own in an online poll. It was a tight race, ...

Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean covering his face as he peers at a piece of paper in his hand in Mr. Bean, 1990. Image via ITV Rowan Atkinson is a comic legend, whose 40+ years in the industry has seen him ...

What if life on Earth didn’t begin here at all, but arrived from somewhere else in the universe? Panspermia is the controversial theory that life (or the ingredients for life) could travel between ...

It's not just iconic characters like Kirk, Spock, and Janeway that have made "Star Trek" one of the best science fiction franchises of all time. It's also its memorable alien races like the Klingons, ...

Learn what happens if you attempt to build your own periodic table from scratch and the science behind it. A high-stakes State of the Union just got harder for Trump A powerful storm will hit some ...

Researchers have directly observed the heaviest atom yet participating in a chemical reaction and forming a molecule. The finding pushes “superheavy” chemistry, which involves extremely massive ...

Scientists are watching a newly discovered object in space, and most of them agree it's a comet, but not all of them. A Harvard scientist, who believes he's seen proof of alien life before, suspects ...

After uncovering a unifying algorithm that links more than 20 common machine-learning approaches, researchers organized them into a 'periodic table of machine learning' that can help scientists ...

The Laboratory in Blue Prince is home to two puzzles: the periodic table puzzle and the machine puzzle. Both puzzles are intertwined with one another — you’ll need to solve the periodic table puzzle ...

When you enter the laboratory, you will find a table on the wall in the shape of the periodic table. However, instead of the element, there are numbers in certain squares of the table. While it is ...