The periodic table is one of the triumphs of science. Even before certain elements had been discovered, this chart could ...

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Three decades of experience doing consumer research and observation for corporate clients led the authors—all with Bain & Company—to identify 30 “elements of value.” ...

Last year, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac) revised the atomic weights of gadolinium, lutetium ...

Why do the atomic weights on the periodic table keep changing? Kit Chapman meets the team behind the decimal places ...

​​In pursuit of prestige and riches, wealthy people across medieval Europe worked in vain to transmute everyday metals into ...

Virtual-PeriodicTable is an open-source project designed to provide a customizable and interactive periodic table. Unlike many existing solutions, this project emphasizes simplicity and accessibility, ...

Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia is at the center of an exciting new study that suggests it may hold elements that have never been ...

When Dmitri Mendeleev developed the first version of the periodic table in 1869, gold was already a well-known element and was included from the start. The Au symbol was already widely recognized in ...

Manvendra memorised each element’s name, atomic number, and atomic mass, accurate to two decimal places, and recited them both in sequence and in random order.