So Julie Hu ’22 started a project two years ago to remake the periodic table into a colorful work of art that could suggest the variety of benefits, and many stories, behind the letters and numbers ..

It happens all over the periodic table ... the symbol for tungsten—that big, fat, unaccountable W. So what gives? How did these elements get symbols with letters that don't even appear in ...

He wanted to sneak that into the periodic table. Illustration by Robert Krulwich It wasn’t an antinuke idea (though Seaborg opposed dropping an atomic bomb on Nagasaki and signed a letter saying ...