A Popular Science columnist has transformed the prosaic periodic table into a drop-dead gorgeous coffee-table book. Each of the first 100 elements gets a stunning spread with a brief bio ...

In "A Tale of Seven Elements," Eric Scerri, a chemist and philosopher of science at UCLA, tells the stories of how these elements—technetium, promethium, hafnium, rhenium, astatine, francium and ...

The periodic table, which arranges elements based on chemical behavior and physical properties, is a triumph of science. Yet the first table, developed in the late 1860s, was riddled with gaps ...

But elements are the new dinosaurs: they’re available via placemats, posters, T-shirts, a fine coffee-table book (“The Elements”), a 3-D app for mobile devices and, of course, that heavenly ...

THE ELEMENTS OF MARIE CURIE: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science | By Dava Sobel | Atlantic Monthly Press | 336 pp. | $30 Kate Zernike is a national reporter at The Times.

You know the periodic table that hung on the wall of every science class you took at school? As of today, it’s wrong. Or more precisely, it's inaccurate.

This April, the SciFri Book Club will read Pulitzer Prize finalist Dan Egan’s The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance.Published this March, The Devil’s Element traces the history of ...