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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...