In Chemidle, the goal isn’t to guess a word – it’s to solve a balanced chemical equation. You build your guess using numbers, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...