From the burning of wood to the action of medicines, the properties and behavior of matter are governed by the way chemical ...

Four new elements discovered earlier this year have all been officially named and will be added to the periodic table later this year. Earlier this year, four new elements including elements 113, 115, ...

Governor Bill Haslam visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Friday to recognize a team of scientists who discovered a new set of super-heavy elements in 2010. The lab was involved in experiments for ...

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A team of Russian and American scientists said Monday that it had created the heaviest element ever seen in a laboratory, a dab of matter that lasted for less than one-thousandth of a second but would ...

Using Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s 88-Inch Cyclotron, an international team of physicists has successfully made two atoms of livermorium (atomic symbol Lv) using a titanium beam for the ...

At the start of the new year, nuclear chemists Hiromitsu Haba and Kouji Morimoto slide precisely 119 Japanese yen into the collection box at their local shrine. They are seeking good fortune in their ...

In December 2015, elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 were approved by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). Five months later, they have names, and are to be added to the table ...