Since then, the periodic table has evolved to reflect over 150 years of scientific development and understanding in chemistry and physics. Today, with 118 known elements, it is widely regarded as one ...

Can you name everything from Ac to Zr? Test your knowledge of the periodic table and see if you can top the leaderboard ...

In recent decades, researchers have pushed the boundaries of the periodic table, synthesizing the heaviest elements known to ...

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

Scientists might be close to producing a new, incredibly heavy element called "element 120." This element would be so massive that it would need a new row on the periodic table, which is the chart ...

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The team believes this method could potentially help synthesize the hypothetical ...

This year, the periodic table of chemical elements celebrates its 150th birthday ... "one of the most significant achievements in science". In March, it will be 150 years since the Russian ...

In a feat of modern-day alchemy, scientists have used a beam of vaporized titanium to create one of the heaviest elements on ...

It took weeks to observe the behavior of one and a half dozen precious, but very short-lived, atoms of these exotic elements.