All History articles – Page 12
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ArticleCelebrating the periodic table
Peter Wothers tells us about the first published version of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table, currently on show in Cambridge
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ReviewExhibition: Celebrating the Periodic Table
A new exhibition at Cambridge University pays tribute to the chemical elements and their discoverers
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PodcastPolyethylene glycol or PEG
The simple polymer that preserves and protects ancient artifacts, and saved a historical Swedish shipwreck from complete collapse
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ArticleThe end of phlogiston and the discovery of oxygen
Pure air, dephlogisticated air or a new element? Josephy Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier get to grips with new gases in this month’s comic
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OpinionThe dangers of dimethylmercury
Looking back at how the death of Karen Wetterhahn changed lab safety
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ResearchChemical analysis reveals origin of Pompeian mosaic tiles
Work will help to preserve ancient murals
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PodcastMelarsoprol
Cases of sleeping sickness – human African trypanosomiasis – are in decline, dropping 86% in Africa between 2000 and 2014. Gege Li explores the role that this toxic, arsenic-based medication has to play.
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PodcastOmega-3 fatty acids
Many consume cod liver oil due to 'a vague sense we should be taking them for something' – but what to the omega-3 fatty acids actually do?
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NewsYear-long celebration of the periodic table launched by Unesco
Hundreds gather in Paris to commemorate 150 years of Dmitri Mendeleev’s most enduring work
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ArticleThe discovery of the noble gases
How an extra line in the solar spectrum kicked off a search for the ‘missing metals’ that turned out to be noble gases
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PodcastCacodyl
It made Robert Bunsen seriously ill, Michael Faraday thought it 'barbaric' to use in battle and even Fritz Haber – the 'father of chemical warfare' – abandoned it after a fatal accident in his lab. This week, Mike Freemantle tells the story of tetramethyldiarsine, otherwise known as cacodyl.
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OpinionWhose periodic table is it anyway?
Dmitri Mendeleev’s table was not the first – but it’s the one that matters
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OpinionIs this the world’s oldest classroom periodic table?
How a chart of elements from 1885 was found, rescued and restored
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ResearchBlue teeth reveal medieval nun's artistic talent
Analysis identifies traces of the precious stone lapis lazuli
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PodcastEllagic acid
Louise Crane introduces the antioxidant that led to exaggerated claims that 'whisky helps fight cancer'
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FeatureThe father of the periodic table
Mike Sutton looks at how Mendeleev’s patience revealed periodicity in the elements