Videos
What it takes to make a new element
Yuri Oganessian tells us how nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson were made
The periodic table
Element 120 may now be in reach and the hunt for it could begin next year
Particle accelerator tests have shown that titanium-50 can be used to make elements 114 and 116
Periodic table of food initiative to uncover exactly what’s in our food
Project will create database of food compounds to standardise understanding of biomolecular composition of foods
Predicting and discovering in chemistry
How scientists look into the past, present and future
Musical periodic table being built by turning chemical elements’ spectra into notes
Computer code that converts each element into a unique piece of music could provide a novel way to expand chemistry communication
Does the periodic table reveal laws of nature?
There could be more to learn from ordering the elements
‘Periodic table’ of hydrocarbons maps ‘magic’ molecules with exceptional stability
Computational chemists calculate the stability of hydrocarbons and design a map with potential predictive power
Period of discovery
Chemical space contained sufficient information to formulate the periodic system 25 years before Mendeleev
How does your garden grow?
With the help of a handful elements from the periodic table, of course
How values influence decisions in science
Empirical evidence is not always sufficient to determine the models we use