The Periodic Table is a thing of beauty, but it can also feel pretty mysterious, especially if the last time you studied it was back in grade school. Now is a great time to get reacquainted.

This graphic, spotted by inhabitat, presents the information found in a traditional periodic table with pictographs and labels indicating where you might encounter each element in your life.

That table measured 90 by 46 μm. This new table (detail in the bottom image) is just 14 by 7 μm. Richard Cousins created the periodic table and portraits using electron beam lithography.

Mendeleev periodic table. Mendeleev then published his periodic table of all known elements in a Russian journal and predicted several new elements to complete the table. Below you can see the table ...

Software engineer Keith Enevoldsen designed the interactive Periodic Table of Elements, in Pictures and Words, with common uses for elements.

Even his credit card has a picture of the traditional periodic table. “The periodic table has been called the paradigm of chemistry; it’s the framework, it simplifies and organizes chemistry ...

The periodic table may excite some terrifying others. But this unique take on the table from a Seattle-based designer looks like fun for everyone, its fun design and interactive features showing ...

Elements heavier than uranium don’t exist naturally on Earth. Researchers make these massive elements at the end of the periodic table by smashing existing atoms together in particle ...

World's Oldest Periodic Table Found in Storage For electrons, the shell levels are full at 2 in the first, 8 in the second, and so forth. Overall, the numbers representing full-up electron shells ...