Researcher Mohd Abubakr says that his circular periodic table is better than Mendeleev’s. I’d have given him the Nobel in chemistry—if Obama hadn’t got it first for mixing himself a whiskey with Red ...

The periodic table has been stamped into the minds of countless generations of schoolchildren. Immediately recognised and universally adopted, it has long since achieved iconic status. So why change ...

This rippling structure may look like a piece of origami, or an intricate scarf. In fact, it is geometry’s answer to the atom because it can’t be broken down into smaller components. Inspired by ...