The periodic table traditionally taught in textbooks, which organizes elements based on chemical traits such as reactivity, places helium in the rightmost column with the other less reactive elements.

The trick for kids is that it's just a matter of scale, it's just a matter of…atoms are just like balls but very, very tiny ones, and that's not a difficult thing for kids to get their heads around.

It's elemental Elemental music: Interactive periodic table turns He, Fe, Ca into Do, Re, Mi Hydrogen has a scale pattern; zinc "sounds like an angelic vocalist singing with vibrato." ...

Those are two takeaways from a brand-new model of the periodic table of elements, debuted this week by the European Chemical Society (or EuChemS, a group representing more than 160,000 chemists in ...