The periodic table of elements (often known simply as the periodic table) has been helping scientists with their work for a ...

UT-Battelle, the managing contractor of ORNL, is donating new charts of the periodic table to public middle and high schools in Tennessee to mark the discovery of the element tennessine.

Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can come top in our periodic table quiz. The ...

Image caption, The element germanium was discovered in 1886. Its properties were similar to the predicted ones of Mendeleev’s ‘eka-silicon’. The modern periodic table has no gaps and has ...

This puzzle shows many of the elements used to make transistors. The finished puzzle is a section of the periodic table, so the numbers on each tile are their atomic numbers - that means they ...

in an attempt to memorise some of the 118 elements. This year, the periodic table of chemical elements celebrates its 150th birthday. As the candles on the cake are lit, it's time to test your ...

Can France claim the first periodic table? Probably not, but a French Geology Professor made a significant advance towards it, even though at the time few people were aware of it. Alexandre Béguyer de ...

Image caption, The element germanium was discovered in 1886. Its properties were similar to the predicted ones of Mendeleev’s ‘eka-silicon’. The modern periodic table has no gaps and has ...