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 ...

Four new elements have been added to the standard periodic table and their creators from Japan, Russia and the United States will now come up with permanent names and symbols for them. The ...

There are many different versions of the periodic table, but one among them reigns supreme. Michelle Francl ponders on why chemists put elements in boxes. The postcard to me began '53 90.8.92.g.1.t'.

Would it surprise you to know that the periodic table, as we know it, isn’t the first table of elements? That even the order of the elements has changed from its original structure? Like many other ...

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Atoms of a new super-heavy element the as-yet-unnamed element 117 have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, moving it closer to being officially recognized as part of the standard ...

Periodic Table apps are a dime a dozen it seems, but the Periodic Table Explorer app lets app users explore information that is not normally included with a “standard” Periodic Table. For example, the ...

For folks whose last exposure to the periodic table might have been in a college or high school chemistry class, the idea that the order of elements on the periodic table is not an immutable physical ...