Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are using the 88-Inch Cyclotron to help steady ...

Phosphorus – the same element used in the striking surface of matchboxes – is fundamental to life. It’s a key component of ...

New atom-by-atom technique demonstrated for the first time with nobelium might ensure that elements at the bottom of the table are grouped correctly ...

The periodic table didn’t actually start with Mendeleev. Many had tinkered with arranging the elements.

In an unprecedentedly precise accelerator experiment, researchers directly observed how some of the heaviest known elements ...

For the last fifty or so years, the periodic table has been incomplete. Elements after uranium on the periodic table have been synthesized for the past few decades, but there were always a few miss… ...

Created 150 years ago, the Periodic Table is a triumph of form and function. Now this design classic has been updated for the 21st century – and opened up to a new audience.

Eric Scerri's delightful "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" follows the 1969 classic by J. W. Spronsen, "The Periodic System of Chemical Elements," but is a different treatment ...

Recycled Periodic Discussions It’s going to take a long time for element 117 to make it onto the periodic table. Why?

Is It Time to Upend the Periodic Table? The iconic chart of elements has served chemistry well for 150 years. But it’s not the only option out there, and scientists are pushing its limits.

The periodic table is 150 – but it could have looked very different Through the years, plenty of hopefuls have pitched their own ideas for how the most famous graph in science should look ...

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 ele ...