Last May we added two new elements, Livermorium and Flerovium, to the periodic able after being first synthesized over a decade ago. Adding new elements to the periodic table is rare, not that we ...

This table includes all 118 known elements, providing their names, symbols, and atomic numbers. Image Source: yourdictionary.com. Classification of Elements of Periodic Table ...

I'll be covering only 25 or so elements here—the periodic table has (as of April) 118. This blog will contain mostly new material and will also cover newsier topics than the book does.

A longstanding mystery of the periodic table involves a group of unique elements called lanthanides. Also known as rare earth ...

Physicists have filled in some longtime blank spaces on the periodic table, calculating electron affinities of the lanthanides, a series of 15 elements known as rare earths.

Carbon settled into a tough spot on the periodic table. To feel satisfied and content, elements need full "sets" of electrons in their outer shell. (Think of a shell as a storage container for ...

A t the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact ...

Following from 2018-unveiled artwork, The Periodic Table of the DJ, a new and updated version has just been released. The artwork, which was influenced by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton’s book Last ...

You wouldn’t know it, because it’s hiding down there at the bottom of the periodic table of elements, but it’s a prank—something a five-year-old might do—and the guy who did it was one ...