Many of you will likely remember playing the tabletop game Battleship as a kid. Karyn Tripp, who runs the homeschooling education site, Teach Beside Me, used the basic format of the classic game to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This article was updated Friday 11/4 6:00pm. The periodic table of elements just got a bit heftier today (Nov. 4), as the names of three new elements were approved by the General Assembly of the ...

Welcome darmstadtium (Ds), roentgenium (Rg) and copernicium (Cn), formerly known as Elements 110, 111 and 112, respectively. The names were suggested by the Joint Working Party on the Discovery of ...

This release is available in German. In honor of scientist and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the discovering team around Professor Sigurd Hofmann suggested the name „copernicium" with ...

A new periodic table developed by online educators allows users to become more familiar with different elements by showing them how each one can be used in practical applications. Keith Enevoldsen ...

The periodic table officially has a new entry. The International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry announced its approval last week of the name copernicium and symbol Cn for element 112 (Pure Appl.

There's a new element officially on the periodic table, and its name is copernicium, after the 16th-century Polish scientist Nicholas Copernicus. It is element 112 and its symbol is Cn. Copernicium, a ...