Despite the handy chart that is the Periodic Table of Elements, memorizing the properties of each chemical element is not always an easy task for visual learners. But Bunpei Yorifuji’s Wonderful ...

The periodic table is about to get a little bit longer, thanks to the addition of four new super-heavy elements. The discoveries of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 were officially confirmed late ...

New research suggests that the periodic table may once again reach 118. A team of nuclear chemists from the United States and Russia has announced the brief appearance of the unnamed element, the ...

That’s important, says Jackie Gates, who was part of that team, because “although the elements of flerovium to oganesson, 114 through 118, have been added to the periodic table, we have not ...

Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 to be added to the periodic table. The seventh row of the table will now be complete. Scientists to devise permanent names for new elements ...

Then along came element 118. Oganesson, named for Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian ( SN: 1/21/17, p. 16 ), is the heaviest element currently on the periodic table, weighing in with a huge atomic ...

Since then, the Russian scientists have used a different method to reproduce element 116, but at least for now, element 118 must remain crossed off the Periodic Table.

Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 to be added to the periodic table. The seventh row of the table will now be complete. Scientists to devise permanent names for new elements ...