Ever wondered what makes Hydrogen number 1 on the periodic table? There's a reason. Discover the intelligent design of the periodic table with BBC Bitesize.

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 ...

The periodic table of elements, devised by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, is a two-dimensional array of the chemical elements, ordered by atomic number and arranged 18 across by orbitals.

The periodic table captures a subtle pattern that runs through the chemical elements , the fundamental building blocks of everything around us: from the aluminium in bike frames to the xenon gas ...

Since the turn of the century, six new chemical elements have been discovered and subsequently added to the periodic table of elements, the very icon of chemistry. These new elements have high ...