Chemistry textbooks as we know it are officially out of date, as four new elements will soon be added to the periodic table. Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 have formally been recognized by the ...

All four man-made elements currently have placeholder names, and will be officially named over the next few months. Elements 115, 117, and 118 were discovered by a team of scientists from the ...

Mark Lorch is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The seventh row of the periodic table is complete, resplendent with four new names for the elements 113, 115, 117 and 118. The ...

The elements, discovered by researchers from Japan, Russia, and the United States, are known by their atomic numbers of 113, 115, 117, and 118. They will be given permanent names soon, according ...

The four super-heavy elements, which only exist in a lab setting for a fraction of a second before they decay into other elements, have been in the works since 2004.

Each of the four new elements was named either after a scientist or geographic location. “The names of the new elements reflect the realities of our present time,” IUPAC president Natalia ...

The elements have officially been given the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118 on the periodic table. For now they are identified by their placeholder names and temporary symbols: ununtrium ...