UT-Battelle, the managing contractor of ORNL, is donating new charts of the periodic table to public middle and high schools in Tennessee to mark the discovery of the element tennessine.

But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can come top in our periodic table quiz. The periodic table of elements is a ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The ...

Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

Researchers from the University of Liverpool are part of an international collaboration that has made significant advances in ...