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Intelligent Alien Dinosaurs?

April 13, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter I for one welcome our alien dinosaur overlords…maybe. Dinosaurs once roamed and ruled the Earth. Is it possible that similar humongous creatures may have evolved on another planet – a world that DIDN’T get smacked by an asteroid – and later [...]

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Honoring Copernicus – Three New Elements Added To The Periodic Table

November 4, 2011

Today, November 4, 2011, the General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) is meeting at the Institute of Physics in London, to approve the names of three new elements… one of which will honor the great Copernicus. Their names are: Element 110, darmstadtium (Ds), Element111, roentgenium (Rg) and Element 112. [...]

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Antoine Lavoisier

November 15, 2010

Antoine Lavoisier is known as the father of modern chemistry. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass, discovered the importance of oxygen and hydrogen, abolished the phlogiston theory, helped develop the metric system, developed the first extensive element chart. He is recognized for discovering that matter may change its form [...]

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Molecules

November 5, 2010

For millennia, scientists have pondered the mystery of life; namely, what goes into making it. According to Genesis, man was created out of clay and the “breath of life”. However, other cultures put forth the notion that all things were composed of particles, a tiny, indivisible entity that could neither be created nor destroyed. This [...]

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Atomic number

September 17, 2010

Ever wonder why the periodic table of elements is organized the way it is? Why, for example, does Hydrogen come first? And just what are these numbers that are used to sort them all? They are known as the element’s atomic number, and in the periodic table of elements, the atomic number of an element [...]

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