The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can come top in our periodic table quiz. The periodic table of elements is a ...

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.

Our collective perception of flame is clouded. When asked to picture a flame, most people probably envision an orange streak ...

The show centers on actor Bryan Cranston's character Walter White, a struggling Albuquerque high school science teacher who leverages his chemistry skills to begin making and distributing crystal meth ...

Scientists have found an alternative way to produce atoms of the superheavy element livermorium. The new method opens up the possibility of creating another element that could be the heaviest in the ...

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), and the ...

Students at Anderson High School continued a Halloween tradition on Thursday morning. Chemistry students at Anderson showed up to school bright and early to carve pumpkins and create the periodic ...

A new technique for growing quantum dots has not only found a new, more efficient way to build a useful type of quantum dot, but also opened up a whole group of novel chemical materials for future ...