The periodic table is one of the triumphs of science. Even before certain elements had been discovered, this chart could ...

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.

Still, the groups have a lot to be proud of, according to Jimmy Franco, an organic chemist at Merrimack College who helped lead an effort to paint the world’s largest periodic table in 2012.

“Despite its strong predictive power, the basic periodic table model does not account for about 8% of known protein complex structures,” the authors conceded.

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 knowledge, with our quiz.

Sir William Ramsay, the Scottish chemist who discovered several noble gases, is the subject of today’s Google doodle. The noble gases are a group of chemical elements with very low reactivity ...

Rhenium and technetium not only share the same group in the periodic table, but also have some common history relating to how they were — or indeed weren't — discovered. Eric Scerri explains.

In his new book, "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance," Eric Scerri says that six now obscure scientists came up with periodic tables in the 1860s, before Mendeleev sketched out the ...