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 ...

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 ...

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 ...