See how The Periodic Table Song uses catchy music to simplify chemistry and make learning elements fun and easy for everyone.

In one story, a single element from the periodic table changed U.S. Senate candidate Stan Jones forever. "Stan was a big believer that the Y2K virus was going to wipe out civilization," Kean says.

By Douglas CruickshankFeb 12, 2006 Chronicle illustration by Mark Todd ...

Periodic Table Day is celebrated every year on … well, we'll let you figure that out in the quiz just below! Plenty of folks have a fascination with the periodic table all year long.

Now you can find out. The British firm Buy Metal Online decided to have a little fun with the standard periodic table of the elements and charted fictional minerals derived from pop culture.

But the table of elements survived—and it’s a whopper, says Paulina Król, a school press officer. The Warsaw table stretches across 246 m 2.

All good geeks are aware of the proliferation of period tables on the internet. We at GeekDad particularly like the edible ones. Well, over at keaggy.com they have put together a periodic table to ...

A couple of months ago I wrote a blog about different ways of presenting the periodic table (Click Here to see that blog). My interest was largely driven by a book called The Disappearing Spoon, in ...

The periodic table brought solidity to a field of inquiry that had long been squishy. Sir Isaac Newton, in Query 31, a section in his 1717 work “Opticks,” listed and ranked chemical compounds ...