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

We learn the periodic table as the elements arranged according to the atomic number, which is an integer, a whole number. That's the number of protons in an atom of that element.

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.

Posters in chemistry labs are in need of an update. The periodic table now has four new elements, completing its seventh row. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the ...

Revise topics such as atoms, elements and compounds, mixtures, atomic structure, Mendeleev's periodic table, groups in the periodic table and transition metals. BBC Homepage Skip to content ...

The scientists who worked on the A-bomb were not allowed to call element 94 “plutonium.” Every ingredient in the bomb was top secret, so they gave it a false cover; they called it “copper.” ...

In their new version of the periodic table, Allahyari and Oganov arranged the elements only based on their radius and electronegativity properties. "[The] clusters indicate chemistries that are ...

Nature has learnt that the periodic table, as well as evolution, won’t be taught to under-16s as they start the new school year.

In this periodic table of elements quiz, you have 10 minutes to name as many elements as you can, given only their symbol, atomic weight and the broad group they live in.