Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carolyn Krause presents Jim Roberto’s story about how element 117 named tennessine was discovered and what he thinks are the ...

Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...

Thanks to the work of chemists at Lund University in Sweden, a brand new element has taken a seat at the periodic table: Element 115, or ununpentium (Uup) as it is currently known. Ununpentium (which ...

One of the proud achievements of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the discovery of three elements either by its own staff or in collaboration with other institutions in the United States and Russia.

Different elements exist on Earth, each with distinct physical and chemical properties based on their atomic structure. To ...

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 ...

Carolyn Krause presents Jim Roberto’s story about how element 117 named tennessine was discovered and what he thinks are the prospects of, and obstacles to, creating elements 119 and 120 and even ...