In high school science classes, students are encouraged to memorize the first 20 elements of the periodic table. There are other methods employed at the university level for all 118 -- many ...

Can you name everything from Ac to Zr? Test your knowledge of the periodic table and see if you can top the leaderboard ...

The organization of the periodic table reveals an element’s behaviors and characteristics: from atomic size, density and abundance, to how it would likely interact with others. Elements 101 Everything ...

This year is the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements—and today (March 6), the modern version celebrates its 150 th birthday.. To find out more about the table and how ...

Teacher and technology specialist Chris Wilson reviews the classroom usefulness of Wonderful Life with the Elements, by Bunpei Yorifuji (No Starch Press, 2012).

The Periodic Table is a thing of beauty, but it can also feel pretty mysterious, especially if the last time you studied it was back in grade school. Now is a great time to get reacquainted.

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 ...

The periodic table is arranged in rows and columns that group elements with similar chemical properties above and below each other. Element 119 (also known by its placeholder name, Ununennium ...

The elements that make up each column of the periodic table share a set of common traits. Here, a chemist describes group 15 and the crucial role they play in life. ... Read the original article.