Slate is starting a series of posts on the periodic table of elements, with author Sam Kean writing a separate post about each of about two dozen of the most interesting elements. The first entry is for antimony, which I...

(vimeo link) Oxygen tries to make friends with other elements, with varying results. This animation was Christopher Hendryx's senior project a year ago at the Ringling College of Art + Design. -via Metafilter dig...

Alexander Kobulnicky paints pictures of molecules. Pictured above is heme, which is one ingredient in hemoglobin.  The artist writes: We know that molecules form the basis of matter, of the human body and of the natu...

Chemist Mark Leach has a website filled with dozens of different periodic tables. Pictured above is one that illustrates Madelung's Rule addressing electron sequencing. I have no idea what that means. Fortunately,...

The Science of Cooking is full of great information for curious chefs, children learning to cook, or anyone who ever wondered what was really happening when you turn sugar into candy. When you cook up a batch of candy,...

Chemistry is a fascinating science, but it's often taught p...  ...y in today's boring schools. Here's how chemistry should be taught: by mad scientists! He...  ...Neatorama's list of the Top 10 Mad Science-Worthy Chemistry Experiments: 1. Brig...

The Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah has created an interactive feature that allows you to see the relative size of small objects, starting with a coffee bean and magnifying down to a carbon atom...

Image: Mohd Abubakr The modern periodic table of elements has been attributed to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, which he published in 1869. Pictured above is a proposed alternative that is shaped like a circle in...

Yesterday, the American Chemical Society's database of identified, unique chemical substances hit the 50 million mark. Most of these discoveries were made quite recently: “A novel substance is either isolated or sy...

Truth in labeling -- this t-shirt tells readers exactly what chemical elements they can expect to find inside. Link via Kinda Unique...