Everyone knows that cars are sophisticated machines. Even the simplest car has thousands of individual parts and dozens of systems that must work together in harmony. Complex devices often require ...

In this video excerpt from NOVA's "Hunting the Elements," New York Times technology columnist David Pogue explores how the periodic table of elements took shape. Learn how the periodic table developed ...

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 ...

The inventor Buckminster Fuller once described technological progress as “ephemeralization.” Sunbeams and breezes are replacing coal and oil as energy sources, brands are more important than buildings ...

The story of the fifteenth element began in Hamburg, in 1669. The unsuccessful glassblower and alchemist Hennig Brandt was trying to find the philosopher’s stone, a mythical substance that could turn ...

One hundred fifty years after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his system for neatly arranging the elements, the periodic table it gave birth to hangs in every chemistry classroom in the ...

On the periodic table, most elements have at least one stable form. But others have only unstable forms, all of which decay by emitting radiation and transforming into different elements until ...

University of Hull provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. But the periodic table didn’t actually start with Mendeleev. Many had tinkered with arranging the elements. Decades before, ...

Vibranium, the wonder-element of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is pretty amazing. It absorbs and stores vast amounts of energy, dissolves metals and can induce mutations in living things. No wonder ...