Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read entries from a Web site that offers short poems about each of the chemical elements. The site, iSciFiStory.com, asked people to write haiku about their favorites.

If, like a package of food, you had a list of ingredients stamped in an out-of-the-way spot like the bottom of your foot—with the elements that make up most of your weight coming first—it would read ...

THE physical and chemical properties of selenium hexafluoride have received little investigation 1,2. We have prepared selenium hexafluoride by reaction of the elements at 300° C. in a copper tube, ...

The element selenium may pose some nasty health risks for wildlife, but it does have a lovely name. It's named after Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Which leads us to this ...