
In my element
The challenge of blue
Hideki Kubota loves his job as a pyrotechnician. In this article he explains why the color blue is a challenge and how the element copper plays a role in his work.

In my element
“My fate depends on hydrogen”
Kurt Frieden likes to get carried away through the air by hydrogen – the lightest element on earth.

In my element
“I love and hate chlorine”
The diver Tina Punzel plunges every day into a chlorinated pool. What does she associate with the element chlorine?

In my element
“How we discovered Darmstadtium”
The nuclear physicist Prof. Sigurd Hofmann on a new element that he was allowed to name after his home town.
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