Gluon? Quark? Neutrino? Is this an alien language? Despite being Greek to us, these are the names of the building blocks of all the matter that we can see and touch. Air, water, plastic, oil, mother ...

Four new elements have been added to the standard periodic table and their creators from Japan, Russia and the United States will now come up with permanent names and symbols for them. The ...

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There are many different versions of the periodic table, but one among them reigns supreme. Michelle Francl ponders on why chemists put elements in boxes. The postcard to me began '53 90.8.92.g.1.t'.

Tear down your wall-charts and burn your chemistry textbooks. The scientist's holy bible is getting a historic revamp as ten elements on the periodic table are about to be altered. For more than a ...

Atoms of a new super-heavy element the as-yet-unnamed element 117 have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, moving it closer to being officially recognized as part of the standard ...

An extended periodic table was suggested by Glenn T Seaborg in 1969. What is an extended periodic table? An extended periodic table was suggested by Glenn T Seaborg in 1969. It’s a logical extension ...

It's a vital part of chemistry teachers' educational repertoire, as much as a scorched Bunsen burner or a sackful of safety goggles. With its array of digits and chemical abbreviations, it appears ...

Periodic Table apps are a dime a dozen it seems, but the Periodic Table Explorer app lets app users explore information that is not normally included with a “standard” Periodic Table. For example, the ...