The figure above is probably not how one should choose to teach students about the periodic table, but it illustrates a point. Note that most the everyday elements—the ones we've all heard of— are ...

The elements that make up our bodies and the world around us imagined as superheroes. As a lover of children's books, especially illustrated science-inspired and nonfiction children's books, I was ...

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 ...

The periodic table stares down from the walls of just about every chemistry lab. The credit for its creation generally goes to Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known ...

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan Almost all ...