The figure above is probably not how one should choose to teach students about the periodic table, but it illustrates a point. Note that most the everyday elements—the ones we've all heard of— are ...

The elements that make up our bodies and the world around us imagined as superheroes. As a lover of children's books, especially illustrated science-inspired and nonfiction children's books, I was ...

Metals on the west wing of the periodic table—the s-block elements—almost never form double bonds, because of the meager capacity of their s orbitals. Now, a team led by Robert J. Gilliard Jr. of the ...