Researchers may be nearing the creation of element 120. Element 120 would add a new row to the periodic table. New ion-bombardment technique may be the key to synthesising unbinilium.

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Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods. Of these, 11 are essential elements that our bodies need in larger amounts: oxygen, carbon ...

The “glow of radium” burned away neoplasms but ate into the bones of those who worked with it. X-rays showed up broken and ...

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Nihonium (Nh), a radioactive synthetic element, joined the periodic table of elements in November five years ago with the atomic number 113. More than a century ago, a similar sounding but ...