It's a vital part of chemistry teachers' educational repertoire, as much as a scorched Bunsen burner or a sackful of safety goggles. With its array of digits and chemical abbreviations, it appears ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. This is ...

The chart was hidden amongst a trove of rolled-up papers in the school's chemistry building Courtesy of the University of St. Andrews A periodic table unearthed during routine storage cleaning at ...

Chart appears to date from 1885, and was found under lecture hall during clean-out A crumbling roll of canvas-backed paper discovered underneath a lecture theatre in Scotland may be the world’s oldest ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the late 19th century, the Russian ...

Two scientists in Moscow have proposed replacing the periodic table as the chief way to organize elements. Rather than ordering by atomic number (the number of protons in the nucleus) the chart lists ...

At the St. Andrews University in Scotland, England, the oldest " periodic table" in the world was discovered. A periodic table (element periodic table) in which elements with similar chemical ...

Every year, National Periodic Table Day is celebrated on February 7 since 2016 as a way to pay tribute to the chart. The periodic table is a tabular composition of chemical elements in accordance with ...

The periodic table may be one of the greatest accomplishments in information visualization. Its simple approach–lining and layering atoms by number of protons–is something that anyone can understand.

Some years ago at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I taught a one-semester inorganic course for BS chemistry majors. During the class we covered all the noncarbon elements in a ...

The iconic chart of elements has served chemistry well for 150 years. But it’s not the only option out there, and scientists are pushing its limits. By Siobhan Roberts When Sir Martyn Poliakoff, a ...