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 ...

Today the periodic table is the starting point for understanding chemistry. On the wall of every laboratory or school chemistry department you are likely to find hung a copy where chemists and student ...

The periodic table is now a thing of both beauty and practical use, says Dr Wothers. "You can understand certain things just by considering the place of an element in this table, or in this ...

This dynamic website for young children offers hands-on activities; online games and articles to help children better understand everyday chemistry. In this edition of Celebrating Chemistry, explore ...

Hydrogen is placed on its own as it is quite a unique element. The periodic table can be read across from left to the right along the rows horizontally. It can also be read up and down the ...

For the last fifty or so years, the periodic table has been incomplete. Elements after uranium on the periodic table have been synthesized for the past few decades, but there were always a few ...

and read off the time using the atomic number of the elements. So, if it’s 13:03:23, that would light up aluminum in blue, lithium in green, and vanadium in red. The periodic table was designed ...

Researchers from the University of Liverpool are part of an international collaboration that has made significant advances in ...

Sodium, like most elements in the periodic table could be said to have a dual personality. On one side it is an essential nutrient for most living things, and yet, due to its reactive nature is also ...