It isn’t carbon, it isn’t nickel, it sure as heck ain’t gold — it doesn’t even have a formal name. But never mind that. The newly created superheavy element, announced today in a paper published in ...

Though led by physicists at Lund, the team that made the discovery was international, a statement from the university says. The experiment that led to the super-heavy, element’s discovery was ...

Great news, chemistry geeks -- the four new elements added to the periodic table last December have finally received their permanent names. On Wednesday, the International Union of Pure and Applied ...

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