The four new elements fill out the right bottom corner of the main periodic table. Elements 114 and 116, flerovium and livermorium, were previously discovered. (Credit: LANL) ...

Of course, that hasn’t stopped the table from being reimagined many times. Most recently, designer Alison Haigh created this minimalist periodic table, built less for understanding the nature of ...

The periodic table captures a subtle pattern that runs through the chemical elements , the fundamental building blocks of everything around us: from the aluminium in bike frames to the xenon gas ...

Unstable decay This graphic plots the life spans, or half-lives, of the periodic table’s unstable elements (blue) on a logarithmic scale. Data for each element’s longest-lived form, or isotope ...