Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by ...

Time for a science refresher course? One in 5 Americans can't name a single element on the Periodic Table. Most Americans surveyed (59 percent) couldn't name more than 10 elements of the 118 that ...

Four new elements discovered recently by Russian, American and Japanese scientists have completed the seventh row of the Periodic Table of Elements and rendered science textbooks everywhere incorrect.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Feb. 17, 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his first attempt to sort the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our modern lives depend on rare earth elements, and someday soon we may not have enough to meet growing demand. Because of their special properties, these 17 metallic elements are crucial ingredients ...