Why has the periodic table endured for 150 years? It’s an amazing tool that can compress a huge amount of information into one format. It’s one of the first things people learn about chemistry.

The periodic table currently has 118 chemical elements (SN: 11/30/16). The five heaviest elements were all produced using a beam of calcium-48. That’s a variety, or isotope, of calcium with 28 ...

Mendeleev’s periodic table, published in 1869, was a vertical chart that organized 63 known elements by atomic weight. This arrangement placed elements with similar properties into horizontal rows.

The periodic table is a fundamental part of understanding chemistry. Elements define our universe: they are the components and foundation of the substances that we interact with every day.

So the beauty of the periodic table is that the elements that are in columns, up and down, have similar properties. But there are similarities within a group going across too.

So Julie Hu ’22 started a project two years ago to remake the periodic table into a colorful work of art that could suggest the variety of benefits, and many stories, behind the letters and numbers.

In this video excerpt from NOVA's "Hunting the Elements," New York Times technology columnist David Pogue explores how the periodic table of elements took shape. Learn how the periodic table ...

The periodic table stares down from the walls of just about every chemistry lab. The credit for its creation generally goes to Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known ...