Jeff Wysaski, 29-year old founder of Pleated-Jeans, debuted his Periodic Table of Meat last year. The number of meats in the world is vast. Wysaski's table brings order to the chaos. Creating it ...

Elements in the periodic table are arranged in order of increasing atomic number. The atomic number represents the number of protons in an atom's nucleus, uniquely identifying each element.

The periodic table stares down from the walls of just about every chemistry lab. The credit for its creation generally goes to Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known ...

Before distributing the cards, explain that each card contains information about electrons and energy levels for the first 20 elements of the periodic table. The students’ job is to read the card ...

Tell students that this is the periodic table. Explain that each box contains information about a different atom. The periodic table shows all the atoms that everything in the known universe is made ...

When Dimitri Mendeleev published the first periodic table 150 years ago, only about half as many elements were known as today. Over the ensuing decades, researchers have added new names to the ...

Hour 2. Science writer SAM KEAN transformed his childhood hobby of collecting Mercury from broken thermometers into his first book, “The Disappearing Spoon: and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and ...

If you are intimidated by the periodic table, then this introduction through the first column of elements will give you a feel for how and why the elements are arranged in this order.

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 ...

The story behind the creation of the Periodic Table, and its 118 elements. Over 15,000 copies of this were sold in hardback, says Michael O'Mara ...