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Since then, the periodic table has evolved to reflect over 150 years of scientific development and understanding in chemistry and physics. Today, with 118 known elements, it is widely regarded as one ...

We always enjoy [The History Guy], and we wish he’d do more history of science and technology ... Cold War pursuit of creating transfermium elements. That is, the discovery of elements that ...

A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly charged ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic clocks. The periodic table ...

Dark matter may come in multiple particles and weights, similar to the ordinary elements on the periodic table, a new theory ... contributor to Space.com, Live Science, and more.

The idea for the table ... elements of the periodic table are arranged according to their properties (and most of us will never forget having to fill them in on at least one test). Now, computer ...

The periodic table - AQA Mendeleev made an early periodic table. In the modern periodic table, elements are in order of atomic number in periods and groups. Electronic structures model how ...

Just like the periodic table of chemical elements, which initially contained ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ...

There are 17 rare earth elements on the periodic table, but a better name for them ... Engineering Department at Virginia Tech, told Live Science. "They're certainly not as rare as metals like ...