It’s the work of James Harris, who took 176 story-telling tropes — ranging from Etw (evil twin) to Ir (no, not Iridium, intrepid reporter) — and organized them all into a grouped table.

In this periodic table of elements quiz, you have 10 minutes to name as many elements as you can, ... Story by Alexander ...

The story of the fifteenth element began in Hamburg, in 1669. The unsuccessful glassblower and alchemist Hennig Brandt was trying to find the philosopher’s stone, a mythical substance that could ...

The elements were placed in the periodic table’s seventh row, which is above the row of lanthanides and the row of actinides. In the 1980s and 1990s, Roberto noted, scientists at the GSI Helmholtz ...

For the record: 10:55 a.m. Feb. 25, 2019 An earlier version of this story stated that George Burbidge co-authored a landmark paper on the origins of the elements. His name was Geoffrey Burbidge.

This new Periodic Table shows the astounding origins of every atom in your body By Dave Mosher 2017-01-20T19:23:00Z ...

The periodic table lists 118 different chemical elements. And yet, for thousands of years, humans have really, really liked one of them in particular: gold. A chemist explains.

In other words, it contains elements not on the periodic table at all. These elements would be stable around atomic number 164, which is far denser that Osmium, the densest known naturally ...

Like a periodic table of type elements, the chart explains typography by breaking down varieties of type, letter anatomy, measurements and spacing, and typesetting. Whether you're a type neophyte ...

Two new elements were officially added to the periodic table this month, after being approved by an international panel. The complicated process took years; now elements 114 and 116 just need ...