Northwestern’s chemistry department is one of the largest in the country, according to chemistry Prof. Franz Geiger. With ...

The article written by Percy E. Ludgate in 1909 first gives thanks to Professor C. V. Boys, F.R.S. for his assistance on the subject of analytical machines. Ludgate also refers to the work of Charles ...

The periodic table is one of the most popular and useful classifications ... history concerns the formulation of different kinds of tables. Tables have been invented to classify not just chemical ...

The origin of lithium (Li), the third element of the periodic table, has long been shrouded in mystery. This element, ...

These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods. Of these, 11 are essential elements that our bodies need in larger amounts: oxygen, carbon ...

We always enjoy [The History Guy], and we wish he’d do more history of science and technology. But when he does, he always delivers! His latest video, which you can see below, focuses on the ...

From classic toys to life-changing technologies, here are 20 Surprising Things That Were Invented in Indiana. Indiana is home to Holiday World, originally Santa Claus Land, the first-ever theme park ...

Remember when Donald Trump discovered the word “groceries” and then felt he had to teach us what it meant? “It’s such an old-fashioned term but a beautiful term: groceries,” he said on ...

Everyone else calls that the bus — and plenty of people on social media were keen to point that out, with mocking posts noting that "Uber’s invented the bus". Given those stumbles, it may seem ...

Mensa has welcomed its youngest member, a British two-year-old whose professor parents say, "the credit is all his!" ...