The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard to overstate its importance ...

Unlike the even, square periodic table of old, the skewed, multicoloured table of 2019 shows many of the elements used to make mobile phones as being included on an ‘endangered list’.

Scientists at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have studied lawrencium for first time. The radioactive element is extremely difficult to make and has a half-life of just 27 seconds.

The seventh row of the table was completed in 2016 when Tennessine, Nihonium, Moscovium, and Oganesson were added. Elements can be named after places, minerals, mythological figures, or people.

In this periodic table of elements quiz, you have 10 minutes to name as many elements as you can, given only their symbol, atomic weight and the broad group they live in.

Numbers 114 and 116 will sit "down in the lower-right corner of the periodic table." In real life, both elements are "so large and unstable" that they can only be created in a lab, says Jennifer ...

In the past 250 years, new elements have been added to the table about once every 2 ½ years on average, said Paul Karol of Carnegie Mellon University. He chaired the committee that recognized the ...

In celebration of the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT 2019), the Royal Society of Chemistry is organising a series of talks at science centres, universities and other venues across the ...