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 ...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of Chemical Elements in 1869. In celebration, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...

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? What is the periodic table?

The periodic table of elements is a landmark categorization ... realm of 'quantum superchemistry' When it comes to science, ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

MR. SODDY'S contention that there exist sets of elements, incapable of separation from each other by chemical means, has much experimental evidence to support it, taken from the behaviour of some ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have synthesized ...

Researchers have synthesised a triple bond between carbon and boron for the first time. This discovery could help chemists better understand chemical bonds and inspire other researchers to synthesise ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.