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.

Against that backdrop, Rubi Laboratories is flying a green banner over the industry with “carbon-negative cellulosic textiles.” The company, founded by the nieces of the founder at the Bebe ...

RUBI’s core element is a cell filled with fluid, which can be heated and cooled thermoelectrically. The boiling process is then triggered on a metal-coated glass heater using a laser.

No element with the precise chemical and physical properties to fit that spot in the familiar chart ever had been found or synthesized. It would have to have 117 protons in its core.

In 1937, it became the first element to be discovered by synthesis in a laboratory — paving the way to the atomic age. The discovery of technetium. When Mendeleev proposed his periodic table in ...