Many scientists worked on the problem of organizing the elements, but Dmitri Mendeleev published his first version of the periodic table in 1869, and is most often credited as its inventor. Since then ...

Discover the history, structure, and importance of the periodic table of elements, from Mendeleev’s discovery to modern scientific applications. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

It seems as if the makeup of the periodic table would be as rudimentary as apples falling down, not up. There’s evidence for elements like oxygen, iron, and silicon all around.

In December 2015, IUPAC made the first of several broadcasts: Four elements, Nos. 113, 115, 117 and 118, met the criteria for inclusion in the periodic table.

The transition metals are in the block in the middle of the Periodic Table, between Groups 2 and 3. They are all metals and include many common metals such as chromium (Cr), iron (Fe), nickel (Ni ...

Element 115 is the first possible addition to the periodic table since 2012’s twofer: flerovium (114) and livermorium (116), which caused Sargent-Welch to make its last round of additions ...

Bismuth, element 83 on the periodic table of elements, is a post-transition metal, according to Los Alamos National Laboratory.(Different versions of the periodic table represent it as a ...

The basic modern periodic table. Shutterstock/duntaro The elements. When scientists began collecting elements in the 1700s and 1800s, slowly identifying new ones over decades of research, they ...