The periodic table of the elements isn't as confusing as it looks. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists had a rudimentary ...

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If you ever want to open a chemistry theme restaurant, you should be sure to furnish it with 118 tables — one for each element. Note that it could not be a Greek restaurant, because then the number of ...

At the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they ...

University of Nottingham’s chemistry professor Martyn Poliakoff says that most chemists don’t know the atomic number of most elements and that it’s a pain to look in the periodic table. That’s why ...

Welcome to science world. See this guy? This is Dmitri Mendeleev. 150 years ago in Russia this guy invented a way of arranging the elements according to their atomic weights, in a matrix. So cool.

Chemistry teachers recently had to update their classroom décor, with the announcement that scientists have confirmed the discovery of four new elements on the periodic table. The as-yet unnamed ...

Scientists are showing renewed interest in studying space objects that may contain never-before-seen heavy elements, such as the asteroid 33 Polyhymnia. The asteroid appears to be denser than any ...