Foremost among silicon's distinguishing features is that, quite simply, there is a hell of a lot of it. After oxygen, it's the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust -- but don't expect to ...

Silicon is organized as a 10-chapter anthology, with each essay tackling a different facet of how a single element became the ...

Silicon's evolution from sand to semiconductor revolutionized electronics, enabling miniaturization and powering modern ...