Phosphorus, for instance, went from a glowing, albeit stinky, symbol of scientific ingenuity to an ingredient in white-hot bombs, capable of burning entire cities. Like the periodic table itself ...

Elemental music: Interactive periodic table turns He, Fe, Ca into Do, Re, Mi. Hydrogen has a scale pattern; zinc "sounds like an angelic vocalist singing with vibrato." ...

The proposed names and symbols were announced back in June and were approved on Nov. 28 after a five-month public review. The elements complete the seventh row of the Periodic Table .

Researchers in Germany produced element 112 in 1996, and now that it has been recognized by the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry, it will be the newest addition to the periodic table ...