The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

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 ...

The Periodic Table Restaurant and Bar, a Columbia restaurant serving contemporary American dishes with international twists, permanently closed its doors in late September. The restaurant announced ...

MIT researchers found that different algorithms can all be grouped into a ‘periodic table’ of AI. The idea for the table was an accident that emerged from identifying similarities between two ...

A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly charged ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic clocks. The periodic table, first ...

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 ...

The periodic table is part of the bedrock of chemistry education. Students use it to look up values like an element’s atomic mass, and it serves as a visual reference for the trends in physical ...

Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...

Both arithmetic aficionados and the mathematically challenged will be equally captivated by new research that upends hundreds of years of popular belief about prime numbers. Contrary to what just ...