You know the periodic table that hung on the wall of every science class you took at school? As of today, it’s wrong. Or more precisely, it's inaccurate. One of the biggest changes in decades is set ...

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 ...

It’s official: four new superheavy elements are joining the periodic table. The newcomers, elements 113, 115, 117, and 118, currently have placeholder names. The International Union of Pure and ...

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 ...

From ancient coins to modern markets, gold has shaped money for centuries. Its physical properties help explain why it continues to hold a unique place in finance.

On a stage in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris, Yuri Oganessian holds a microphone in one hand and a small remote control in the other. Over ...

Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji wrote a new book about the periodic table, unlike any you’ve ever seen before. (That goes for you too, chemistry nerds.) It’s the science book you wish you had as a kid ...

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, right near the MIT campus, there’s a great little bar called “Miracle of Science.” It’s as if someone took everything from my science-outreach-filled dreams and made it a ...

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