An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest ...

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

Many scientists worked on the problem of organizing the elements, but Dmitri Mendeleev published his first version of the periodic table in 1869, and is most often credited as its inventor. Since then ...

You interact with about two-thirds of the elements of the periodic table every day. Some, like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, make up our bodies and the air we breathe. Yet there is also a class of ...

1. Periodic Table as Arranged by Mendelejeff attention to the fact that “the eighth element, starting from a given one, is a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in ...

The history of symbols and tables is of course intertwined. This can be seen through the example of Etienne-Francois Geoffroy ...

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.