The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can ...

The Periodic Table, first compiled by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev, is organized by the number of protons in the nucleus of each element's atom, known as the atomic number. The elements are ...

An Australian man described as a "science nerd" may face jail time, after attempting to collect all the elements in the ...

Watch this video to find out more information on the periodic table close periodic tableA table which lists all of the chemical elements and arranges them in a way that is useful. It allows us to ...

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This year we celebrate the 150 th anniversary of Mendeleev’s achievement in formulating the structure of the periodic table that we use today. He announced his structure in 1869, but the challenge of ...

A 24-year-old Australian man could go to jail for ten years as he prepares to plead guilty for importing plutonium from a ...

Can you believe the periodic table has been around for over 150 years? Take this quiz to see if you can find the elements. What information do we collect from this quiz? What is the periodic table?

Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...

Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.