Learn all about the 118 combinations of protons, neutrons and electrons that make up our world. Whether hung on classroom walls, put up in dorm rooms or screen-printed on T-shirts, the periodic table ...

The periodic table is like a map that organizes elements based on their atomic structure and properties. It helps scientists and students study and understand the vast variety of elements and how they ...

Chemistry’s eye-catching arrangement of elements has undergone many changes since its inception in the mid 1800s. To this day, scientists seek to improve it. Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for ...

The modern periodic table, arranged in rows and columns, was first introduced by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. At the time, it included the known elements and their properties, but Mendeleev predicted ...

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

In Bunpei Yorifuji's new book, Wonderful Life with the Elements: The Periodic Table Personified science comes alive as elements get personalities and become a lot more fun. Many of us years ago ...

The seventh row of the periodic table is officially full. On December 30, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced that a Russian-U.S. collaboration had attained sufficient ...

Ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctium are the tentative names for the four newest members of the periodic table of elements. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), ...

While you were off celebrating the holidays, the periodic table got a little more complete. Four newly discovered elements managed to squeak their way in just before the end of 2015, filling up the ...

Researchers at Sweden's Lund University have announced that they've been able to confirm the existence of element 115 on the periodic table. Their research is being published in this week's edition of ...