Many scientists worked on the problem of organizing the elements, but Dmitri Mendeleev published his first version of the periodic table in 1869, and is most often credited as its inventor. Since then ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...

known as "element 120," which would be so hefty that it would need to be put in a new row on the periodic table of elements.

The periodic table captures a subtle pattern that runs through the chemical elements, the fundamental ... We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers.

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have synthesized ...

Scientists have discovered 'berkelocene,' the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. The breakthrough disrupts long-held theories about the chemistry ...

This puzzle shows many of the elements used to make transistors. The finished puzzle is a section of the periodic table, so the numbers ... the puzzle starts with a new random display.

Two years later, Julius Lothar Meyer and William Odling independently published their own versions of a periodic table ... starting a new row or column when the characteristics of the elements began ...

Thomas Purdie, a chemistry professor who worked at St Andrews, purchased the periodic table of elements chart in 1888. It likely hung in his classroom for years until he retired in 1909.