A new version of the periodic table showcases the predicted properties of 2-D metals, an obscure class of synthetic materials. Arrayed in 1-atom-thick sheets, most of these 2-D metals have yet to be ...

RUN your fingers over the white keys of a piano. The notes get higher and higher as your hand moves to the right. On the eighth key, something beautiful happens: a note hangs in the air that embodies ...

This is a guest editorial by Eric Scerri, a lecturer in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of “The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its ...

To expand the periodic table, it might be time to go titanium. A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged ...

University of Hull provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. But the periodic table didn’t actually start with Mendeleev. Many had tinkered with arranging the elements. Decades before, ...