Richard J.C. Brown, a British chemist who studies weights and measures, has a big idea: He wants to name the next set of prefixes used to identify gargantuan numbers. To facilitate international trade, manufacturing and scientific communication, most countries use a standard system of units sanctioned by the International...
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Better Living Through Chemistry
In an age of technological wonders, few can equal the life-altering and life-saving drugs that have poured forth from laboratories and research teams in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Anti-psychotic drugs have emptied mental hospitals. Antibiotics have added years to average life expectancy. Birth control pills have transformed...
The Experiment That Made Einstein Famous
One hundred years ago, an extraordinary feat of astronomy proved that the theory of relativity One hundred years ago, at the beginning of 1919, few people outside Germany had ever heard of Albert Einstein. By the year’s end, however, he had become a worldwide celebrity and a symbol of...