The creation of element 120, aka unbinilium, would shake up the periodic table by adding a new eighth row to the famous chart. (Image credit: Getty Images) Researchers may have found a way to create a ...

At the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they ...

When it comes to the discovery of elements on the periodic table, you can divide the world into two parts—Ytterby, and everywhere else. Ytterby ("itt-ter-bee") is a village on a speck of an island ...

150 years after Mendeleev organized the elements by their characteristics, a special issue explores the enduring influence of this scientific masterpiece. When Dmitri Mendeleev published the periodic ...

McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. The United Nations announced 2019 as the International ...