As part of their chemistry class, seventh-graders at Cohen Hillel Academy in Marblehead created periodic-table windsocks, integrating the design process with a multi-faceted approach to understanding ...

Eric Scerri's delightful "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" follows the 1969 classic by J. W. Spronsen, "The Periodic System of Chemical Elements," but is a different treatment of ...

Many students, especially non-science majors, dread chemistry. The first lesson in an introductory chemistry course typically deals with how to interpret the periodic table of elements, but its ...

Two women hold tweezers and meticulously place small balls into small dents in a wooden board. American Chemical Society members volunteer time to place small balls into small dents to help finish a ...

The periodic table is one of those classic images that you find in many science labs and classrooms. It’s an image almost everyone has seen at some time in their life. Who can forget the periodic ...

These colourful shapes are part of a project launched last week to create a periodic table of shapes to do for geometry what Dmitri Mendeleev did for chemistry in the 19th century. The three-year ...

Editor's note: The following is a text-only version. The complete version with artwork is available for purchase here (PDF). The periodic table of the elements is one of the most powerful icons in ...

The discovery of element 117 filled the last remaining gap in the periodic table as we know it. But even as it is being completed, the table may be losing its power In 2010 researchers in Russia ...

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...