Though Mendeleev published a version of the periodic table, which we would recognize today, the current periodic table is an amalgamation of discoveries and alterations to the grouping of elements ...

Time to re-write the textbooks. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has confirmed the existence of four new elements with the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118.

We explore if it's really possible that new elements exist beyond the periodic table. Adamantium, bolognium, dilithium. Element Zero, Kryptonite. Mythril, Netherite, Orichalcum, Unobtanium. We ...

Image credit: Images of elements (CC by 3.0). Some asteroids are dense. So dense in fact, that they may contain heavy elements outside of the periodic table, according to a new study on mass density.

Abubakr says the major disadvantage with the current table is, well, the shape itself and that it doesn’t help to describe the properties of the elements. He suggests instead using a “circular form” ...

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable A 17-year-old Indian school girl came up with an imaginative way to remember all the elements on the periodic table for her science class.