The updated table could be an effective educational tool for students of all ages. Having something tangible and recognizable attached to each element could help students to more easily memorize ...

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 periodic table of elements is a landmark categorization developed in 1869 by the Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev. It arranges all natural and synthetic elements by their atomic ...

And Janet’s table also correctly located elements 104 to 118, several decades before they were discovered. In the late 1920s, Janet turned his perceptive powers to the chemical elements.

The same team that produced element 112 is also responsible for adding elements 107-111 to the periodic table. Sigurd Hofmann, who led the team at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research, has been ...

Then along came Rutherford, Bohr, and Moseley, in the years 1911–1914, and scientists found that the place of an element on the periodic table (atomic number) was not just a voodoo hack-up, like ...

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 grace the Periodic Table.

And then we started to get carbon and oxygen and really important things," Johnson said. "And now, we're kind of in the glory days of populating the periodic table." All elements were forged by stars.