All elements articles
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News
China bans sale of three critical elements and ‘superhard materials’ to the US
Export bans on gallium, germanium and antimony could hit semiconductor and weapons manufacturers hard
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Opinion
Period of discovery
Chemical space contained sufficient information to formulate the periodic system 25 years before Mendeleev
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Opinion
How does your garden grow?
With the help of a handful elements from the periodic table, of course
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Research
Elemental analysis of skid marks could connect a car’s tyres to a crime scene
New technique could be a valuable addition to forensic scientists’ toolkit
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Podcast
Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter’s Wolf by Peter Wothers – Book club
We talk about chemist Peter Wothers’ first popular science book that uncovers the surprising origins of the elements’ names
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Careers
Undergraduates in their element
Harnessing the history of tungsten to engage school students with the periodic table
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Opinion
Only boring elements get bored
Prizes for best, most boring and most overlooked element up for grabs
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Opinion
UK homes stockpiling 40 million electronic devices containing rare elements
Hoarding of electronic devices stores up problem for the future as demand for rare elements increases
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News
Call to address e-waste ‘stockpile’
Royal Society of Chemistry backs recycling drive to recover endangered elements from old electronic devices
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Opinion
Machine-learning Mendeleevs have rediscovered the periodic table
Exposing new dimensions in the relationships between elements
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Opinion
What elements are on your bucket list?
Why chemists want to work with everything on the periodic table
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Review
Exhibition: Celebrating the Periodic Table
A new exhibition at Cambridge University pays tribute to the chemical elements and their discoverers
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Review
Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
A whistle-stop tour of the periodic table
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News
Year-long celebration of the periodic table launched by Unesco
Hundreds gather in Paris to commemorate 150 years of Dmitri Mendeleev’s most enduring work
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Review
The many lives of carbon
Dag Olav Hessen leaves no stone - or diamond - unturned in his account of element six
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