The periodic table's organization provides important information about an element's structure and properties. Read on to learn more about how the periodic table was made over 150 years ago and why ...

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

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.

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.

For any element in the periodic table, the number of electrons in an atom of that element always equals the number of protons in the nucleus. But this is not true for neutrons. Atoms of the same ...

A t the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact ...

Naturally occurring superheavy elements beyond those listed in the periodic table could potentially explain why asteroid 33 Polyhymnia is so dense, new research suggests. A handful of asteroids in ...

Michael Thoennessen at Michigan State University says this experiment strengthens the case for the feasibility of creating element 120. “You have to do the groundwork and feel your way up to it ...

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