Does the periodic table still matter?
Our weekly podcast on the innovations, discoveries and gadgetry making the news
IT IS 150 years since Dmitri Mendeleev published the periodic table, the innate order underpinning the elements. This week’s episode of “Babbage” Kenneth Cukier explores how this simple grid has shaped our understanding of the universe and our place in it. Meanwhile, in a laboratory near Moscow, the search is on for element 119. But in California researchers are hesitant. Is chemistry over? Runtime 20 min.
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