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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elements with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118 have been added to the periodic table. The new elements were added after the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) reviewed ...

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

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.

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

Time to re-write the textbooks. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has confirmed the existence of four new elements with the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118.

A periodic table of chemical elements showing where every atom in the solar system comes from. Jennifer A. Johnson/The Ohio State University; NASA; ESA ...

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.

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.