In the wee hours of the late 17th century, Isaac Newton could be found locked up in his laboratory prodding the secrets of nature. Giant plumes of green smoke poured from cauldrons of all shapes and ...

I highly recommend Wonderful Life with the Elements as a companion to the science classroom. Our world, everything we know, can be distilled into 188 elements. The very thought is fascinating in its ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

How a US admiral decided to kill two boat strike survivors With the penny going away, what should you do with the ones in your coin jar? Brendan Fraser Never Imagined How Iconic 'The Mummy' Would ...

This year is the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements—and today (March 6), the modern version celebrates its 150 th birthday. To find out more about the table and how new ...

Students learn to describe the pattern in atomic number, atomic mass and atomic radius. Trends on the Periodic Table: Students learn to describe the pattern in atomic number, atomic mass, atomic ...

You probably studied the "regular" periodic table in school—but did you know there are more versions of the periodic table ...

Kelling Donald receives funding from The National Science Foundation, and the Dreyfus Foundation. The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for ...