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A new Periodic Table of Exoplanets guides scientists and science fans alike through over 3,700 known exoplanets, including those that may host life.To organize the thousands of worlds identified ...
The periodic table is an icon. But chemists still can’t agree on how to arrange it New data about the elements and their relationships have led to debate over the 150-year-old table’s optimum ...
Discover the history, structure, and importance of the periodic table of elements, from Mendeleev’s discovery to modern scientific applications. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
Today, the periodic table is organized by atomic number, which is the number of protons in the nucleus. But they didn’t know about protons then, so they organized everything by atomic weight.
In this wonderful riff on the periodic table, science communicator and PhD student Jamie Gallagher mapped out where the scientists were working when they made their discoveries. Since Lothar Meyer ...
Siegfried is clearly the right person to open our 2019 coverage of the periodic table’s notable birthday. “I was a chemistry major in undergrad,” Siegfried told me. “I wrote papers about ...
Given the enormous popularity of the periodic table in chemistry, doesn't it make sense to build a periodic table for biology? Pawan Kumar Dhar visualises the anatomy, the potential pay-offs and ...
She has shared her table online, describing it as a "sub-project of Alchemy Science Visualisation," which is how she brands her art and design work. Hu was first inspired to make a new periodic table ...
The Periodic Table of Tropes might be a better name for this interactive visualization: Although each box on Harris’s Periodic Table contains one storytelling element coupled with an atomic ...