This lesson utilizes an adaptation of the board game Periodic: A Game of the Elements to help students better understand both general periodic trends and the law of conservation of energy. This ...

This week, the female chemists who helped build the periodic table, and harnessing the extra energy in Wi-Fi signals. Your browser does not support the audio element ...

This year marks the periodic table of elements’ 150th anniversary, and to celebrate, the College of Letters and Science asked some campus experts about their favorite elements. Each one shared the ...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table, and the principles that drove Dmitri Mendeleev to construct his table are still influencing today's research advances. This year marks the ...

Hollywood has a history of making up science to support its plotlines. In the blockbuster movie “Black Panther,” the titular Marvel Comics superhero wears a bodysuit powered by the fictitious metal ...

Oct. 11, 1939. Europe is at war, and US president Franklin D. Roosevelt has just received a fateful letter from Albert Einstein. Noting that “the element uranium may be turned into a new and important ...

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 ...

Electronegativity, an essential characteristic of all elements in the periodic table, measures an atom's ability to attract electrons towards itself within a chemical bond. This vital theoretical ...