The 150-year-old Periodic Table of the Elements may not look the same as when people were introduced to it in their first science class. And Eric Scerri, chemistry professor, author and expert on the ...

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of 4 new elements, which will fill in the missing elements from the periodic table’s seventh row. The scientists from the United States, Japan, and Russia who ...

“The periodic table tells us a story – its aim to understand the essence of all things,” said UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay in her introductory speech at the opening ceremony of the ...

Gluon? Quark? Neutrino? Is this an alien language? Despite being Greek to us, these are the names of the building blocks of all the matter that we can see and touch. Air, water, plastic, oil, mother ...

Eagle-eyed readers may spot a change in this column. Previously known as Blog life, it highlighted top picks from the physics blogosphere, and was itself an outgrowth of an earlier column on physics ...

A committee of international chemists and physicists has officially added two new elements to the periodic table: the ultraweighty elements 114 and 116. [partner id ...

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 ...

The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular method of displaying the chemical elements, first devised in 1869 by the Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev. Mendeleev intended the table to ...

It's a vital part of chemistry teachers' educational repertoire, as much as a scorched Bunsen burner or a sackful of safety goggles. With its array of digits and chemical abbreviations, it appears ...

If "Physics for Dummies" left you baffled, maybe it's time to go a step further: Why not physics for pets? In "How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog," physics professor Chad Orzel attempts to explain ...

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of 4 new elements, which will fill in the missing elements from the periodic table’s seventh row. The scientists from the United States, Japan, and Russia who ...