How well do you know your way around the periodic table? Can you tell a noble gas from neptunium? In this quiz, test your knowledge of some chemistry basics, history, and trivia, including the quest ...

Oxford Univ. Press: 2009. 426 pp. £34.99. Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics was published just as I started college, and although I'd like to say it seduced me away from bench chemistry and into ...

Over billions of years of evolution, nature has developed an intricate machinery to covalently attach diverse functional groups to proteins after their synthesis by the ribosome — a process called ...

In this feature, molecules are depicted in two ways. Methane, for example, is written out as CH 4. This shows that the molecule consists of one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen. The molecule ...