The old paper £5 note was recently replaced with a polymer bill said to be indestructible. A university science professor decided to put this theory of unbreakability to the test. SEE ALSO: Elderly ...

March 9, page 2: The sample indicated in the letter titled “Seaborg’s Plutonium Roots” should have been shown in micrograms (µg), not milligrams (mg). A list of modern chemistry “rock stars” is not ...

Sir Martyn Poliakoff is a Research Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham where he teaches green chemistry. Originally an inorganic chemist, he has researched in many different areas ...

Engineers have inscribed the periodic table on a shaft of hair snipped from the frizzy mop of Nottingham University's Martyn Poliakoff. The feat was accomplished using a gallium ion beam in a scanning ...

There's more than a bit of playful mischief in the chemistry-themed videos produced by University of Nottingham Professor Martyn Poliakoff, journalist Brady Haran, and the rest of their merry cast of ...