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 ...

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 ...

Everybody remembers trying to learn the periodic table in science lessons at school. The table is one of the fundamental building blocks of chemistry, explaining the relationship between different ...

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 ...

Chemists have always looked for ways of arranging the elements to reflect the similarities between their properties. The modern periodic table lists the elements in order of increasing atomic number - ...

WASHINGTON: A study led by researchers of American Chemical Society (ACS) introduces an innovative way to make learning about the elements of the periodic table much more approachable. The first ...