A new periodic table developed by online educators allows users to become more familiar with different elements by showing them how each one can be used in practical applications. Keith Enevoldsen ...

Noble gases—helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon—have long been believed to be the least reactive elements on the periodic table. Helium’s composition in particular, with its full outer ...

I entered the Yale Medical Historical Library with the smell of tert-butyl methyl ether still lingering, phantom-like, from the organic chemistry lab I had just left. Tucked away in my lab notebook ...

The periodic table isn't what it used to be, thanks to innovations by a planetary chemist at Washington University in St. Louis. The periodic table isn't what it used to be, thanks to innovations ...

The periodic table stares down from the walls of just about every chemistry lab. The credit for its creation generally goes to Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known ...

University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. With the naming of four new chemical elements, it’s worth reflecting on their long and interesting history – and ...