The Independent

The periodic table is 150 – but it could have looked very different

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Newsweek

Periodic Table 150th Birthday: How Are New Elements Discovered?

This year is the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements—and today (March 6), the modern version celebrates its 150 th birthday. To find out more about the table and how new ...
Chemistry World

Atomic physics gets its own ‘periodic table’ that covers highly charged ions

A new chart for highly charged ions (HCIs) has been proposed, aiming to replicate the conventional periodic table’s ...
Daily Mail

Scientist propose reordering the 150-year-old periodic table to easily identify materials with useful properties and put an end to longstanding debates of certain elements

Two scientists in Moscow have proposed replacing the periodic table as the chief way to organize elements. Rather than ordering by atomic number (the number of protons in the nucleus) the chart lists ...
Daily Mail

From the spiral to the subway map: The strange periodic tables chemists have created to try and explain the elements

The periodic table stares down from the walls of just about every chemistry lab. The credit for its creation generally goes to Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known ...
Salon

The politics of the periodic table — who gets the credit and why

The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for structure and desires for credit. Formally, the modern periodic table is a systematic arrangement of the ...