In ancient Greece, most people thought that matter was made up of combinations of four elements: earth, air, fire and water. There were a small number of Greeks who had a different idea. They believed ...
I read with great interest the article by Katherine Bourzac “Divining the Mysteries of the Atomic Nucleus” in the Jan. 29, 2024, issue of C&EN (page 30). Curious readers might like to know that an ...