The periodic table is in large part a mystic mystery to those of us without a science background. What is Osmium? Roentgenium? Yttrium? We know these things . . . exist, but we don’t know how ...

The periodic table of pop culture. Photo illustration by Alex Sandoval. Here, we've taken on the task of ranking all the best fictional metals. Obviously, it would be impossible to name and rank ...

Once we knew we wanted it to be a periodic table, the rest just became easy.” The minerals are divided into segments that include television shows, animated series, games, comic books, films and ...

Gigglebit is Siliconrepublic’s daily dose of the funny and fantastic in science and tech, to help start your day on a lighter note. In today’s entry, science and fiction collide as an ...

We explore if it's really possible that new elements exist beyond the periodic table. Adamantium, bolognium, dilithium. Element Zero, Kryptonite. Mythril, Netherite, Orichalcum, Unobtanium. We ...

Collins, who is executive director of LTU’s Marburger STEM Center, says the fictional element was a good way of getting students to think seriously about the periodic table.

In other periodic table news, Ezequiel Skorepa, a graduate student at the National University of Jujuy in Argentina, has designed a cylindrical periodic table that can be printed using a 3-D printer.

DC Comics has licensed DK Books to publish a periodic table for the DC Universe, including all manner of fictional elements and their effects on the characters within. As well as defining ...

The opening shows a family arriving at the fictional port of Elemental City, ... This idea came from drawing buildings on top of this periodic table and making them into characters.

(via PBS Eons) Adamantium, bolognium, dilithium. Element Zero, Kryptonite. Mythril, Netherite, Orichalcum, Unobtanium. We love the idea of fictional elements with miraculous properties that science ...