In this wonderful riff on the periodic table, science communicator and PhD student Jamie Gallagher mapped out where the scientists were working when they made their discoveries. Since Lothar Meyer ...

Neima Jahromi on the discovery and manufacturing of chemical elements, and the books “Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter’s Wolf,” by Peter Wothers,” “The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its ...

Whether you need to brush up on your chemistry, or just love it when someone sets the Periodic Table to music, AsapSCIENCE’s The NEW Periodic Table Song is for you. This rundown of the elements ...

A table of the chemical elements arranged in order of atomic number, usually in rows, so that elements with similar atomic structure (and hence similar chemical properties) appear in vertical columns.

Every element in the periodic table gives off a certain amount of visible light. It’s this light that makes it easy to tell gold (Au) and silver (Ag) apart.

Although some of the symbols on the periodic table may seem strange, ... comes from the Latin word hydrargyrum, meaning "liquid silver," a more recent version of which was the English "quicksilver." ...