What do you get when you mix a frizzy-haired, grandfatherly chemist with his younger, cackling, explosion-loving sidekick? The Periodic Table of Videos! Put together by a team at the University of ...

Elements heavier than uranium don’t exist naturally on Earth. Researchers make these massive elements at the end of the periodic table by smashing existing atoms together in particle accelerators.

Eagle-eyed readers may spot a change in this column. Previously known as Blog life, it highlighted top picks from the physics blogosphere, and was itself an outgrowth of an earlier column on physics ...

The journal Science is produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an organization that takes its role in promoting science education and outreach seriously. This year, the ...

image: Some chemists might see the periodic table of elements as a holy testament to the power of science. However, when it first debuted, it was a different kind of holey, and its journey to ...

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2019 -- In 1871, Dimitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table to the world. Many of the current 118 elements were missing, and he left placeholders for those yet to be ...

This video explains the periodic table, containing all the known elements arranged in groups and periods. Elements in the same group of the periodic table show trends in physical properties, such as ...

Out of the annals of history comes this doozy. A man by the name of Theodore Gray is a co-founder of Wolfram Research, best known as the creator of Wolfram Alpha, the two-year-old computational answer ...

Mendeleev's original, 1869 version of the Periodic Table featured 63 elements. Now, there are 118. But as scientists worked to extend the Table (and fill in a bunch of holes), not every ...

The people who brought you the chemistry-themed Periodic Table of Videos on YouTube have been given a <em>Science</em> Prize for Online Resources for the way they've ...