To be noted here, the heaviest element on earth to be made till date is element 118 (oganesson) which was first synthesized in 2002. It must also be noted here that only 118 elements have been ...

We’ve reached the limit of a very successful way to make new elements in the lab. In new research, scientists unveil a new take on that technology and report its success. The heaviest elements could ...

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, ...

We have four new elements, but the Russians aren’t happy. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has just confirmed the existence of numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 in the ...