This is wonderful in the way that only an obsessive science geek with an interest in comics can make something wonderful: The Periodic Table of Comic Books. Welcome to the Periodic Table of ComicBooks ...

In 1985, Primo Levi was known in Britain and America for a single book, If This is a Man, his memoir of survival in Auschwitz. Then came The Periodic Table, which arrived in this country garlanded ...

Looking for some reading inspiration this summer as you ride out the COVID-19 pandemic at home? Look no further than Nick Thomas’s Periodic Table of Element Books. Thomas, a chemistry professor at ...

Imagine walking into science class and instead of learning about real elements like hydrogen or oxygen, you find a Periodic Table filled with your favourite superheroes! That’s precisely what The ...

To most of us, chemistry remains as mysterious as it did for our alchemist-obsessed ancestors in the Middle Ages. We were formally introduced to its "crowning achievement," the periodic table of ...

When I was a child, my dentist once gave me a small sample of mercury to take home in a tiny jar. (It helps when your dentist is also your cousin.) I loved the heaviness of mercury, its slipperiness, ...

Eric Scerri's delightful "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" follows the 1969 classic by J. W. Spronsen, "The Periodic System of Chemical Elements," but is a different treatment of ...

One of the most amazing scientific discoveries of the last two centuries was created using nothing more than a pen and a piece of paper by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869: the periodic table. He was ...

Earlier in a bid to reduce the burden on students, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) dropped the full chapter on the Periodic Classification of Elements, a full chapter ...

Before phosphorus became a common ingredient in lightbulbs and bombs, early chemists isolated it from urine — at the time, an at-hand source of undiscovered chemicals. According to a recipe by English ...