Two of the heaviest elements on the periodic table were officially named on Thursday (May 31). The man-made elements 114 and 116, which contain 114 and 116 protons per atom, respectively, are now ...

Four new elements now have names. In December, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially recognized the discovery of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118, filling out the seventh row ...

It’s now time to say hello, officially, to the four new additions to the Periodic Table of Elements. This week, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) approved the names of the ...

The periodic table is getting a little bigger after scientists added the names of four new elements, completing the seventh row of the chart. The options could have included mythological characters or ...

As Digital Journal reported in early January, the aforementioned elements were officially discovered thanks to a team of scientists from Russia, Japan and the U.S. After being formally recognized by ...

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Four new chemical elements now have official names and symbols, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced this week. After a five-month review, IUPAC chemists have ...

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For now, they're known by working names, like ununseptium and ununtrium — two of the four new chemical elements whose discovery has been officially verified. The elements with atomic numbers 113, 115, ...

Two new elements are joining old chemistry-class favorites on the periodic table. The latest inductees — number 114, flerovium (Fl), and number 116, livermorium (Lv) — were revealed by the ...