Can you name everything from Ac to Zr? Test your knowledge of the periodic table and see if you can top the leaderboard ...

All of which go to show how the periodic table of elements has become the iconic symbol of science. Mark Lorch is professor of Science Communication and Chemistry at the University of Hull.

From elements that explode on contact with water to those that vanish in seconds, the periodic table is full of strange, rare ...

The periodic table of chemical elements hangs in front of chemistry classrooms worldwide and is an icon for science. Yet much was unknown about its history -- until now. The periodic table ...

My first serious contact with the periodic table as a teaching tool was when I started lecturing on main-group chemistry while one of my colleagues was on sabbatical.

Theo Gray collects elements and has put together this awesome Periodic Table Table. This week Reactions explores the science and chemistry going on inside this periodic table. Step into his office, ...

All chemistry students are taught about the periodic table, an organization of the elements that helps you identify and predict trends in their properties. For example, science fiction writers ...

Since then, the periodic table has evolved to reflect over 150 years of scientific development and understanding in chemistry and physics. Today, with 118 known elements, it is widely regarded as one ...

We explore the science and chemistry going on inside Theo Gray's periodic table table. Step into his office, and you'll see a silicon disc engraved with Homer Simpson, a jar of mercury, uranium ...

The periodic table is an icon of science that sits at the heart of chemistry," he says. "Everything in the physical world is constructed from periodic table stuff.

Hafnium isn’t a particularly remarkable element. It’s not your explosive sodium, shimmering mercury or stinky sulfur. It’s a greyish metal and is commonly used as a neutron absorber in the control ...

Now known as the Periodic Table of the Elements, it was first shaped in February 1869 by Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907), then a professor of general chemistry at St. Petersburg University, in ...