But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...

The periodic table is a way of arranging elements according to their properties. But why, oh why, is it called the periodic table? Well, ‘periodic’ – because it orders elements so that their ...

This is the second part of a three-part series written by Carolyn Krause. Many of the elements were synthesized using an Oak ...

For the last fifty or so years, the periodic table has been incomplete. Elements after uranium on the periodic table have been synthesized for the past few decades, but there were always a few ...

Can you believe the periodic table has been around for over 150 years? Take this quiz to see if you can find the elements. What information do we collect from this quiz? What is the periodic table?

Electronegativity, an essential characteristic of all elements in the periodic table, measures an atom's ability to attract electrons towards itself within a chemical bond. This vital theoretical ...

Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.