Over a century after its creation, the periodic table remains one of the most critical tools in science, providing a framework for understanding the building blocks of matter. It not only ...

The periodic table has become an icon of science. Its rows and columns provide a tidy way of showcasing the elements — the ingredients that make up the universe. It seems obvious today, ...

His table finished the transformation of chemical science from the medieval magical mysticism of alchemy to the realm of modern scientific rigor. The periodic table symbolizes not merely the ...

The periodic table of the elements isn't as confusing ... In addition to Live Science, his work has also appeared in Popular Science, Scientific American, The Christian Science Monitor, and ...

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.

Whether you love chemistry or not, the modern periodic table, first successfully mapped out by Russian academic Dimitri Mendeleyev in 1869, occupies a coveted space in science-lovers' psyches.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of this pivotal moment in science, the UN has proclaimed 2019 to be the International year of the periodic table. But the periodic table didn’t actually start ...

an astronomer at Ohio State University who wrote a review of elemental origins in Friday’s issue of Science to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the periodic table. These stars were massive ...

"Ordering the elements: Elegant and intuitive, today’s periodic table belies the hard-won discoveries hidden within," by Michael Gordin, appears in the Feb. 1, 2019 issue of Science (DOI: ...

a historian and philosopher of science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an expert on the history of the periodic table. (An updated edition of his book “The Periodic Table ...

On the periodic table, most elements have at least one stable form. But others have only unstable forms, all of which decay by emitting radiation and transforming into different elements until ...

But the periodic table didn’t actually start with Mendeleev. Many had tinkered with arranging the elements. Decades before, chemist John Dalton tried to create a table as well as some rather ...