The periodic table added its 112 th official element Wednesday, when scientists in Darmstadt, Germany, announced they had received official approval for ununbium from an international body of chemists ...

The periodic table just got bigger. Four new elements have been recognized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, which is the U.S.-based world authority on chemistry. These four ...

For the last fifty or so years, the periodic table has been incomplete. Elements after uranium on the periodic table have been synthesized for the past few decades, but there were always a few missing ...

The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard to overstate its importance ...