Milton Somers student Lewis Cole takes lunch and anchors a plastic periodic table of the elements outside his La Plata school.Paint used to create the table ended up elsewhere sometimes, including ...

The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard to overstate its importance ...

But the table of elements survived—and it’s a whopper, says Paulina Król, a school press officer. The Warsaw table stretches across 246 m 2 . Had the molecular mosaic survived, the combined ...