Which is your favourite chemical element? To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table, our science journalists will be arguing for their pick from the 118 known elements. In this instalment, ...

Aging nuclear reactors often struggle to stay on line, a fact that’s just as true for small research reactors as it is for massive power plants. So it shouldn’t have been surprising that during 2008, ...

A SMALL quantity (0.11 gm.) of technetium-99 metal has recently been loaned to us by Oak Ridge Laboratories (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) and we have taken the opportunity to measure the melting ...