Chapman, who is both a Disney fanatic and a periodic table expert—tells Newscripts it only took him a weekend to put the collection together. Chapman is author of Superheavy, a book about the ...

What Mr. Kean does have is a big supply of odd facts and anecdotes related to the periodic table. He uses these to turn “The Disappearing Spoon” into a nonstop parade of lively science stories.

The periodic table has become an icon of science. ... That changed when Dmitri Mendeleev started writing a textbook and pondered ways to group the elements together in order to lighten his load.

Two new books on the Periodic Table, The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean and Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh Aldersey-Williams show that chemistry can be exciting, finds ...

This is wonderful in the way that only an obsessive science geek with an interest in comics can make something wonderful: The Periodic Table of Comic Books. Welcome to the Periodic Table of ...

Books present physics as explained to a dog and a new look at the periodic table of the elements. Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness ...

You know the periodic table that hung on the wall of every science class you took at school? As of today, it’s wrong. Or more precisely, it's inaccurate.

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the ...

Created 150 years ago, the Periodic Table is a triumph of form and function. Now this design classic has been updated for the 21st century – and opened up to a new audience.

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 ...

But the periodic table contains still more; the heaviest so far is element 118, oganesson, a “super-heavy” element with 118 protons and a half-life of half a millisecond.