But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can come top in our periodic table quiz. The periodic table of elements is a ...

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The ...

Scientists have found a way to create superheavy elements, leading to groundbreaking possibilities in chemistry.

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 ...

In recent decades, researchers have pushed the boundaries of the periodic table, synthesizing the heaviest elements known to ...

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? The periodic table is a ...

After delivering facts about metals and exuberantly showing off “cool rocks,” Laura Branch veered totally off the topic of chemistry in her Earth System ...

Just four years before Mendeleev announced his periodic table, Newlands noticed that there were similarities between elements with atomic weights that differed by seven. He called this The Law of ...

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.