An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest ...

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 ...

A still from the recent season of the BBC's Sherlock showed the world's only "consulting detective" was relying on a 19th century version of the periodic table of the elements. The Royal Society of ...

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Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

So, today we're going to look at the periodic table. That thing that you see behind your teacher on the wall in science lessons. It actually tells us a lot about the elements that make up the ...