In his adult life he was a brilliant scientist, rising quickly in academic circles. He wrote a textbook, Chemical Principles, because he couldn’t find an adequate Russian book. Mendeleev discovered ...

Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table is a quiet book and also a masterpiece. It is a collection of short stories charting a way through the author’s life and experiences as a working chemist in ...

The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of (the) chemical elements, is a tabular display of the chemical elements. It is widely used in chemistry, physics, and other sciences, and is ...

Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table is a quiet book and also a masterpiece. It is a collection of short stories charting a way through the author’s life and experiences as a working chemist in ...

New discoveries continuously refine our perspective, with many breakthroughs reported regularly. Whether revolutionary or ...

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 ...

Can philosophy make worthwhile contributions to science? Eric Scerri thinks it can, and looks at what it has brought to the table for chemistry. Some years ago I bought a T-shirt at an American ...

It’s not only big novels that drive the crucial publishing season over the next two months. Non-fiction forms an equally ...

Want to learn more about this centerpiece of chemistry? Take your pick from this collection of links about elements and the periodic table! Build an element ball, solve periodic puzzles, and check out ...

in an attempt to memorise some of the 118 elements. This year, the periodic table of chemical elements celebrates its 150th birthday. As the candles on the cake are lit, it's time to test your ...

On Constitution Day, Sept. 17, it’s worth thinking about the political framework used by the framers of our constitutional ...