If you have ever discovered something such as a new theory or particle then maybe the most fun part would be giving it a name. So this is exactly what Sigurd Hofmann and his group at the Centre for ...

SURELY the time has come to abandon the practice of attaching to elements fancy names arbitrarily selected by individuals. When names concerned: nobody but a small clique in constant personal ...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced last week the 'provisional recommendation' that the recently discovered Element 117 be called Tennessine. The name recognizes the roles ...

I know very little about science, but I have heard of the Periodic Table of elements. Recently, I saw a comic in which one person was showing another person an unexpected item on the periodic table.

Posting in SB because of the political joke nature of the thought.<br><br>In 1875 Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovered a new element, which he named Gallium. Gallia is the Latin name for France, ...

Welcome darmstadtium (Ds), roentgenium (Rg) and copernicium (Cn), formerly known as Elements 110, 111 and 112, respectively. The names were suggested by the Joint Working Party on the Discovery of ...

Early this year, we posted about a petition circling around regarding four new heavy metal elements being introduced to the period table. The petition requested that one of these elements be named ...

A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, ...

I know very little about science, but I have heard of the Periodic Table of elements. Recently, I saw a comic in which one person was showing another person an unexpected item on the periodic table.