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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicPeriodic Table

Topic: Periodic Table

Bengaluru gets one-of-a-kind science festival with crowd-sourced items, quiz & a band

The exhibit displays a 3-D exhibition of the periodic table, elements in their true forms and has interactive events centred around the theme.

How the periodic table went from classic design to a rap song

The periodic table, which was an attempt to organise the collection of the elements, has seen many colourful and informative versions created over the years.

No one knows who discovered gold, but it is quietly shaping our world

Gold was always considered to be chemically “inert” – but in recent decades it has found a variety of interesting applications.

Phosphorus: 350 years after its discovery, this vital element is running out

Looking for gold, an alchemist in the 17th Century discovered phosphorous from a most unusual source, urine. Now, centuries later, we face a critical shortage of the element.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.