Mark Blaskovich receives funding from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Wellcome Trust. He is a member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the ...

One hundred fifty years after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his system for neatly arranging the elements, the periodic table it gave birth to hangs in every chemistry classroom in the ...

The iconic chart of elements has served chemistry well for 150 years. But it’s not the only option out there, and scientists are pushing its limits. By Siobhan Roberts When Sir Martyn Poliakoff, a ...

As of 2019, the Periodic Table of the Elements has been around for 150 years. Maybe you've felt a certain chemistry with 2019 but don't know why? Maybe it's because this year marks the 150th ...

The United Nations have proclaimed 2019 to be the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT 2019) to mark the 150th anniversary of the classification system that decorates ...

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 Origin of ...

The story of the fifteenth element began in Hamburg, in 1669. The unsuccessful glassblower and alchemist Hennig Brandt was trying to find the philosopher’s stone, a mythical substance that could turn ...

This illustration shows a typewriter with the keys depicted as the periodic table. Hands are typing on it, and the sheet of paper coming out of it shows the words "Tales from the table." Credit: Chris ...

We explore the science and chemistry going on inside Theo Gray's periodic table table. Step into his office, and you'll see a silicon disc engraved with Homer Simpson, a jar of mercury, uranium shells ...