National Periodic Table Day, observed annually on February 7, honors one of the most significant achievements in scientific ...

The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...

The 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 ...

They are seeking good fortune in their hunt for an elusive entity: element 119. The periodic table looks complete, but it isn’t. The race is on to discover the table’s next row of elements ...

Group 7 of the periodic table is something of an oddity. When the first periodic table was formulated by Mendeleev, it was the only group that contained just a single known element — manganese ...

Ivan Dmochowski ponders how xenon, though initially slow to earn a spot in the periodic table, is now at the forefront of advances in science and technology. For all their nobility, elements of ...

Examples abound of rings that feature multiple nitrogen atoms—the lightest of the pnictogen elements ... down the pnictogen column in the periodic table. Bismuto says he and his colleagues ...

Silicon (Si) is a metalloid, element number 14 on the periodic table. Like carbon, silicon has four bonding sites, but silicon is more than twice as heavy as carbon. The high melting point of ...

Ahamed wants to replace those with microchips made of silicon, a far less expensive chemical element on the periodic table. Vulnerable to energy loss and temperature drifts, however, silicon ...

If you look at the periodic table of elements, there’s no consciousness there. If you look at your genes, the endless AGTC of your nucleotides, there’s no consciousness there,” Koch said. “There’s no ...

Diamonds, composed of transparent crystals of the element carbon, can be synthesized with small amounts of boron, adjacent to carbon on the periodic table. Boron contains one less electron than ...