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 ...

Above all, people adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver—a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and ...

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.

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 ...

The periodic table lists 118 different chemical elements. And yet, for thousands of years, humans have really, really liked one of them in particular: gold. A chemist explains.

We explore if it's really possible that new elements exist beyond the periodic table. Adamantium, bolognium, dilithium. Element Zero, Kryptonite. Mythril, Netherite, Orichalcum, Unobtanium. We ...

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 ...

Finally—a way to map out a family that includes a frog, a pig, a beatnik, an alien, three near-identical chickens, and a "whatever." All of the old standbys are there—Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo ...

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." ...