The figure above is probably not how one should choose to teach students about the periodic table, but it illustrates a point. Note that most the everyday elements—the ones we've all heard of— are ...

The elements that make up our bodies and the world around us imagined as superheroes. As a lover of children's books, especially illustrated science-inspired and nonfiction children's books, I was ...

When students in Scott Byrum’s high school chemistry class at North Sand Mountain School, in Higdon, Ala., need some inspiration, all they have to do is look up. Byrum has installed a massive periodic ...