A new “superheavy” element is being added to the periodic table. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has decided that the as-yet-unnamed element finally meets the ...

New element confirmed for periodic table. By Fox News. Published August 27, 2013 12:05pm EDT | Updated October 20, 2015 5:43pm EDT. Facebook ... First discovered a decade ago, ...

Dmitri Mendeleev is known as the father of the periodic table of elements, and rightly so. He ordered the elements correctly based on their properties, which helped predict the discovery of new ...

Four new elements have been added to the periodic table. ... 117, and 118 have met its criteria for discovery, making them the first elements to be added to the periodic table since 2011.

The periodic table organizes elements according to similar properties — so anyone can tell the characteristics of an element simply by looking at its location on the table.

It’s now time to say hello, officially, to the four new additions to the Periodic Table of Elements. This week, ... Be the first to know. Get browser notifications for breaking news, ...

The periodic table may soon gain a new element, physicists at Lund University in Sweden announced Tuesday. A team of Lund researchers is the second to successfully create atoms of element 115.

The first was Technetium, but we’ve now synthesized 24 “artificial elements” - filling in Mendelev’s gaps, and also extending the periodic table all the way 118, Oganesson, with its half ...

The periodic table is about to get a little bit longer, ... that honor falls to the researchers who first found them. Element 113 could wind up being called “Japonium,” periodic table watchers ...

Since element 99 -- einsteinium -- was discovered in 1952 from the debris of the first hydrogen bomb, scientists have performed very few experiments with it because it is so hard to create and is ...

Element 119 (also known by its placeholder name, Ununennium) would be the first entry on the table’s eighth row. It’s expected to have the characteristics of an alkali metal. The most recently ...