Chemistry News

Dec 1, 2011 by News Staff

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced today new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, stated in a press release from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Scientists of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia and from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA proposed the names as Flerovium for element 114 and Livermorium for element 116. Periodic table (Cepheus / Sci-News.Com) Flerovium (atomic...

Aug 12, 2011 by News Staff

A team of astronomers, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, has reported the first extragalactic detection of the C70 fullerene molecule, and the possible...

Aug 11, 2011 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers has made the first undisputed detection of oxygen molecules in space. Using data from the European Space Agency’s...