In June 2009, element 112 was designated as an official element, more than a decade after it was first created. Sam Kean explained why changing the periodic table requires the scientific ...

T he periodic table of elements (often known simply as the periodic table) has been helping scientists with their work for a little over 150 years. The handy visual reference guide organizes known ...

Most Americans surveyed (59 percent) couldn't name more than 10 elements of the 118 that grace the Periodic Table. This may have been a result of the way the question was asked: Americans probably ...

The modern version of this chemical element chart has been tweaked to account for the quantum theory that governs the arrangement of electrons surrounding the nucleus and the outermost electrons that ...

The elements on the periodic table of elements are listed in ways that emphasize certain relationships. There are families, periods (the horizonal rows) and groups (the vertical columns).

The first was Technetium, but we’ve now synthesized 24 “artificial elements” - filling in Mendelev’s gaps, and also extending the periodic table all the way 118, Oganesson, with its half ...

Scientists have not invented some magical way to transform the masses of all these elements. Instead, they are updating what are often thought of as constants of nature on the periodic table. "For ...

Clarice Phelps is the first Black woman to help discover a new periodic table element. "Taking a seat at the periodic table didn't happen overnight, it was actually a 20-year journey," she said.