Researchers may have found a way to create a new superheavy element, known as "element 120," which would be so hefty that it ...

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 ...

In 1879, he became Chair of Chemistry at the new Firth College in Sheffield where he oversaw the fitting up of the ... Up until this point the atomic number simply referred to an element’s positioning ...

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 ...

The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...

Over time these gaps have gradually been filled in as scientists unearthed new elements ... line in the diagram of the periodic table above separates the metals, on the left, from non-metals ...

A still from the recent season of the BBC's Sherlock showed the world's only "consulting detective" was relying on a 19th century version of the periodic table of the elements. The Royal Society of ...

When the first periodic table was formulated by Mendeleev ... Various chemical analyses by the Italian team revealed a new element, which could be extracted by boiling with sodium hydroxide ...

Like the periodic table of elements, which has enabled generations ... The still-experimental combinatorial method reveals a new way to learn about psychiatric disorders in general, said the ...

But the logic of the periodic table also relies upon the number and ... We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers.