What is it about heavy metal that inspires infographics? First, we saw Doogie Horner’s superb flowchart of heavy metal band names. And now we have Pop Chart Lab’s Periodic Table of Heavy Metals, a ...

You might not realize it, but almost everywhere around you are rare metals from the earth. In your phone, computer, or any other LCD screen, for example, you’ll find a dash of indium, a soft, ...

Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has ...

For now, they're known by working names, like ununseptium and ununtrium — two of the four new chemical elements whose discovery has been officially verified. The elements with atomic numbers 113, 115, ...

Play this game to learn about lots of different elements in the periodic table. While you're watching, look out for where different elements are found in the periodic table. Mrs Roberts: So, here I ...

The ACS is making educational resources available by topic to aid parents and teachers during this time of distance learning. The Periodic Table is an amazing chemistry tool that is organized with ...

This year we celebrate the 150 th anniversary of Mendeleev’s achievement in formulating the structure of the periodic table that we use today. He announced his structure in 1869, but the challenge of ...

The orderly periodic table—often printed with just the chemical symbol and atomic weight of its 118 elements—doesn't quite manage to convey to nonscientists the richness of what these substances bring ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Do you remember your periodic table of elements from school? It might be time for a refresher Thursday since it is officially National Periodic Table Day. Even though it had been used ...