A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The superheavy element 117, which ...

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 ...

The official Periodic Table of the Elements is one step closer to adding element 117 to its ranks. That's thanks to an international team of scientists that was able to successfully create several ...

Scientist’s proposal of ‘Octarine’, the Discworld shade visible only to wizards and cats, for newly discovered element 117 gains 12,000 signatures in two days A petition to name one of the new ...

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The world of physics is getting ready to fill in yet another blank space in the periodic table of the elements, after an international research team created a few atoms of element 117 in a particle ...

An international team of scientists are bringing a new element to the table. The yet to be named superheavy element temporarily referred to as Element 117 is the latest addition to the Periodic Table ...