The iron in our blood, the silicon in your computer, the oxygen that we breath – all of those elements were synthesized inside a star. UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz walks us through the process from a star’s beginning to its death.
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs have discovered a total of 22 elements on the periodic table. Scientific American just recently published a great interactive version of the periodic table of elements. When clicking on each element the user can learn obscure facts about each element’s discovery. “Berkelium” reads: In 1950 The New Yorker … Read more