Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. This is ...

The chart was hidden amongst a trove of rolled-up papers in the school's chemistry building Courtesy of the University of St. Andrews A periodic table unearthed during routine storage cleaning at ...

Chemists and physicists from across the world gathered in Paris on Jan. 29 to officially launch the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT). The year-long celebration of the periodic table ...

The periodic table may be one of the greatest accomplishments in information visualization. Its simple approach–lining and layering atoms by number of protons–is something that anyone can understand.

A computer graphic shows how the collision of calcium ions and berkelium atoms produces atoms of Element 117. (Credit: University of California Television) The scientific body in charge of chemistry’s ...

Tech blog The Beacon recently posted an interesting twist on the periodic table. If you weren't asleep in high school chemistry, you'll recall the periodic table as a colorful chart that your teacher ...