The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) opened a public comment period Wednesday for the recommended names of elements 115, 117 and 118. The International Union of Pure and ...

Ununoctium, as the new element is temporarily named, has no known use but inspired almost a decade-long pursuit by scientists on four continents. Controversy in the course of its discovery hobbled the ...

RUSSIA: US and Russian researchers say they have created element 118, the heaviest known element. It is the fifth ultra-heavy element produced by the team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in ...

Todd M. Hamilton, an associate professor and chair of the department of chemistry at Adrian College, explains. Nuclear scientists continue to expand the periodic table as they detect new elements.

American and Russian scientists have confirmed the discovery of the newest superheavy element -- element 118. "The decay properties of all the isotopes that we have made so far paint the picture of a ...

Oganesson is a radioactive, artificially produced element about which little is known. It is expected to be a gas and is classified as a non-metal. It is a member of the noble gas group. The element, ...

If you think you have seen the above headline somewhere before, then you probably have. In 1999, nuclear physicists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US claimed to have produced three ...

After claims of its discovery were retracted in 2002, a new team of researchers says it has produced a few scant atoms of the heaviest element yet, called simply element 118 after the number of ...

U.S. and Russian scientists on Monday announced they have created the newest super-heavy element, element 118. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers ...