The bold question-askers at What If explore what building a full-scale model of the periodic table would reveal.

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

The periodic table word search has become one of those go-to printables I keep on hand whenever we’re learning about chemistry. It’s simple, fun, and surprisingly effective at helping kids remember ...

Everything around us is built from sets of chemical elements. From the air we breathe to the jewelry we wear. All of these ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...