Science writer SAM KEAN transformed his childhood hobby of collecting Mercury from broken thermometers into his first book, “The Disappearing Spoon: and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the ...

Columns in the periodic table are called groups or families. Elements within the same group share similar properties because they have the same number of valence electrons (electrons in the ...

The periodic table is the very symbol of chemistry, its carefully organised list of the elements make up the very world around us. And you'd be amazed at just how many of them crop up during a ...

What? Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry this is a special 1 hour demonstration lecture to commemorate the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT).