You might not have used the periodic table, but the chances are you'll have seen it. It's known all over the world and when it was created it was a massive step forward for helping scientists to ...

Sorry, chemistry teachers—your periodic table posters are now obsolete. Groups of scientists in the United States, Russia and Japan had more to celebrate last week ...

And for chemistry, no cause for celebration surpasses the origin of the periodic table of the elements, created 150 years ago this March by the Russian chemist Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev.

Mathematicians attempting to build a “periodic table” of shapes have turned to artificial intelligence for help – but say they don’t understand how it works or whether it can be 100 per ...

“We’re trying to build a periodic table of shapes,” says Tom Coates, a mathematician at Imperial College London. The shapes he is referring to aren’t just any old triangles or ...