When you see the periodic table, what comes to mind? The pieces on a Scrabble board? Maybe you think about your high school chemistry class. Maybe you think of the colorful table plastered on the wall ...

Does your love of the periodic table extend to tying 200,000 tiny knots? That was the project that Jane Stewart of Surrey, England, undertook last summer. To honor the International Year of the ...

Volunteers at Wayne State University in Detroit had been braving the elements for hours on an October morning. The wind chapped cheeks and numbed fingers as volunteers wrangled giant blue tarps with ...

The periodic table has become an icon of science. Its rows and columns provide a tidy way of showcasing the elements — the ingredients that make up the universe. It seems obvious today, but it wasn’t ...

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 ...

Sorry, chemistry teachers—your periodic table posters are now obsolete. Groups of scientists in the United States, Russia and Japan had more to celebrate last week ...

David Cole-Hamilton is affiliated with the UK Liberal Democratic Party. He is Vice-President of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS). He is Past-President of the Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton ...

Kelling Donald receives funding from The National Science Foundation, and the Dreyfus Foundation. The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for ...