The periodic table added its 112 th official element Wednesday, when scientists in Darmstadt, Germany, announced they had received official approval for ununbium from an international body of ...

A longstanding mystery of the periodic table involves a group of unique elements called lanthanides. Also known as rare earth ...

A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly charged ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic clocks. The periodic table, first ...

A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged titanium atoms, or ions, into a californium target.

Four new elements have been added to the standard periodic table and their creators from Japan, Russia and the United States will now come up with permanent names and symbols for them.

Finalizing names for new elements is a multi-tiered process. Proposed names are checked by the Inorganic Chemistry Division of IUPAC for "consistency, translatability into other languages ...

R esearchers may have found a way to create a new superheavy element, known as "element 120," which would be so hefty that it ...

Scientists have started a new periodic table for quantum dots, which they refer to as “artificial atoms.”Quantum dots are nano-sized particles that are made of semiconducting materials ...

Meet nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts) and oganesson (Og), the newest elements on the periodic table to receive names. But don’t get too attached to the nomenclature for these ...

In 1869 Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Mendeleev published his Periodic Table, listing 63 elements in rows or columns in order of atomic weight. He claimed the idea came to him in a dream.

The four new elements fill out the right bottom corner of the main periodic table. Elements 114 and 116, flerovium and livermorium, were previously discovered. (Credit: LANL) ...