(PhysOrg.com) -- It's not every day that an element gets to celebrate a bicentennial, and a University of Delaware professor is pleased to have been invited to the "birthday party" for iodine, which ...

A little chemistry anyone? Here's everything you never wanted to know about iodine. But it's not as dreadful as you'd think. Iodine and its compounds disinfect surgical sites, seed clouds, and can ...

Ask most folks what they would need to find planets orbiting distant stars, and very few will list a bottle of iodine. Yet the element iodine plays a vital role in the search for extrasolar planets ...

The question of iodine has come up for some readers after reading my article on salt, in which I suggested using only unrefined salt in lieu of the more common table salt. Chemical iodine in the form ...

Researchers have successfully replaced the rare element iodine in copper-based dye-sensitized solar cells by the more abundant element cobalt, taking a step forward in the development of ...