Elements in the periodic table are arranged in order of increasing atomic number. The atomic number represents the number of protons in an atom's nucleus, uniquely identifying each element.

Most kids might say having to read The Scarlet Letter, or puberty. (I enjoyed both, thank you very much.) But arguably the most boring aspect was memorizing the periodic table–and all its damn ...

(Courtesy: iStock/welcomia) To mark 2019 being the International Year of the Periodic Table, members of the Physics World team have been having some chemical “fun” in our self-styled Battle of the ...

If you wanted to create the world’s next undiscovered element, number 119 in the periodic table, here’s a possible recipe. Take a few milligrams of berkelium, a rare radioactive metal that can ...