The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

Mrs Roberts: Not quite. So, today we're going to look at the periodic table. That thing that you see behind your teacher on the wall in science lessons. It actually tells us a lot about the ...

Mrs Roberts: Not quite. So, today we're going to look at the periodic table. That thing that you see behind your teacher on the wall in science lessons. It actually tells us a lot about the ...

Can France claim the first periodic table? Probably not, but a French Geology Professor made a significant advance towards it, even though at the time few people were aware of it. Alexandre Béguyer de ...

Can philosophy make worthwhile contributions to science? Eric Scerri thinks it can, and looks at what it has brought to the table for chemistry. Some years ago I bought a T-shirt at an American ...

The story of the last element to be discovered out of the first 92 catalogued in the periodic table is told by Eric Scerri, who reminds us that technetium can be found a little closer to home than ...