Periodic Table Day is celebrated every year on … well, we'll let you figure that out in the quiz just below! Plenty of folks have a fascination with the periodic table all year long.

Meet nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts) and oganesson (Og), the newest elements on the periodic table to receive names. But don’t get too attached to the nomenclature for these ...

By the periodic table’s logic, all d-block elements should have filled s orbitals. But copper defies that logic. It should have the electron configuration [Ar] 3d 9 4s 2.

The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for structure and desires for credit. Formally, the modern periodic table is a systematic arrangement of ...

The periodic table shows all the atoms that everything in the known universe is made from. It’s kind of like the alphabet in which only 26 letters, in different combinations, make up many thousands of ...

A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged titanium atoms, or ions, into a californium target.

The first 117 elements on the periodic table were relatively normal. Then along came element 118. Oganesson, named for Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian (SN: 1/21/17, p. 16), is the heaviest ...

Give each student a Periodic Table of Energy Levels activity sheet. This table contains energy level models for the first 20 elements. The electrons are included only for the atoms at the beginning ...

New musical instrument translates sounds of every element on the periodic table. Cassidy Ward. Sun, April 9, 2023 at 3:30 PM UTC. 4 min read. The universe is alive with the sound of music.