I highly recommend Wonderful Life with the Elements as a companion to the science classroom. Our world, everything we know, can be distilled into 188 elements. The very thought is fascinating in its ...

University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. With the naming of four new chemical elements, it’s worth reflecting on their long and interesting history – and ...

Eric Scerri's delightful "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" follows the 1969 classic by J. W. Spronsen, "The Periodic System of Chemical Elements," but is a different treatment of ...

An icon of scientific order it might be – but not all its unruly elements are willing to be neatly categorised. Explore our interactive guide to the problems that are making the periodic table look ...

I entered the Yale Medical Historical Library with the smell of tert-butyl methyl ether still lingering, phantom-like, from the organic chemistry lab I had just left. Tucked away in my lab notebook ...