As part of their chemistry class, seventh-graders at Cohen Hillel Academy in Marblehead created periodic-table windsocks, integrating the design process with a multi-faceted approach to understanding ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Graduate students from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the Voelcker Biosciences Teacher Academy are working with more than 100 K-12 schools in the San ...

These colourful shapes are part of a project launched last week to create a periodic table of shapes to do for geometry what Dmitri Mendeleev did for chemistry in the 19th century. The three-year ...

All 118 elements of the periodic table, from hydrogen to lawrencium, are being brought to life in a series of YouTube videos filmed at a British university. The lively clips are intended to bring ...

When choosing an element to research, Dasia Arguelles picked arsenic. “I wanted to learn why it was so dangerous,” she said. Arguelles learned that the element had some beneficial uses, being used in ...

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...

・Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) develop tables similar to the periodic table of elements but for molecules. ・Their approach could be used for predicting novel stable ...

If you wanted to create the world’s next undiscovered element, number 119 in the periodic table, here’s a possible recipe. Take a few milligrams of berkelium, a rare radioactive metal that can be made ...

Just prior to the end of 2015, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC to everyone, including itself) made a momentous announcement: it was accepting the existence of four new ...