The curious minds at What If explore the chaos that would ensue if you swallowed the entire periodic table.

The term 'rare earth' dates to an 18th‑century Swedish mine and survives mainly out of habit. In truth, these 17 metals are ...

Just like the periodic table of chemical elements, which initially contained blank squares that were later filled in by scientists, the periodic table of machine learning also has empty spaces.

For instance, the researchers used their framework to combine elements of two different algorithms to create a new image-classification algorithm that performed 8% better than current state-of-the-art ...

the U.S. government designated a large swath of the periodic table of elements — 50 minerals in all — as “critical.” The United States obtains more than half of them, including a category ...