YouTube channel AsapScience has recorded possibly the funnest rendition of the periodic table set to music that anyone's ever heard. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you ...

One hundred fifty years after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his system for neatly arranging the elements, the periodic table it gave birth to hangs in every chemistry classroom in the ...

The United Nations have proclaimed 2019 to be the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT 2019) to mark the 150th anniversary of the classification system that decorates ...

Browse a list of curated classroom activities by the American Association of Chemistry Teachers. Lesson Plans: The Periodic Table and Bonding Download inquiry-based lesson plans and activity sheets to ...

Hafnium isn’t a particularly remarkable element. It’s not your explosive sodium, shimmering mercury or stinky sulfur. It’s a greyish metal and is commonly used as a neutron absorber in the control ...

Where were you when humans first set foot on the moon? When the Berlin Wall came down? When the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the country? People tend to remember where they were ...

Most students learn the elements in the periodic table through sheer memorization. Fourth graders at St. Paul’s Lutheran School got to learn through their taste buds. With the baking help of a lot of ...

Most of the time we don't think about the periodic table. Individual elements are always important—gold, oxygen, aluminum—but we rarely consider the table as a whole. It just hangs on the wall where ...