LIVERMORE — By firing atoms of metal at another metal, Russian and American scientists created an element — No. 118 on the periodic table — that is the heaviest substance known, the scientists ...

U.S. and Russian scientists on Monday announced they have created the newest super-heavy element, element 118. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers ...

A U.S. and Russian team said Monday that it had created element 118, the heaviest known to date. It is the fifth ultra-heavy element produced by the team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and ...

New research suggests that the periodic table may once again reach 118. A team of nuclear chemists from the United States and Russia has announced the brief appearance of the unnamed element, the ...

The first 117 elements on the periodic table were relatively normal. Then along came element 118. Oganesson, named for Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian (SN: 1/21/17, p. 16), is the heaviest element ...

After claims of its discovery were retracted in 2002, a new team of researchers says it has produced a few scant atoms of the heaviest element yet, called simply element 118 after the number of ...

NB: The paper reporting the discovery of element 118 was formally retracted by its authors in 2002. The retraction followed an investigation into alleged scientific misconduct by one of the authors, ...

For the second time in seven years, researchers say they have made the heaviest chemical element ever — the exotically titled ununoctium, or element 118. The evidence comes in the form of specific ...

Welcome to the world, elements 113, 115, 117 and 118! Four new elements will join more than a hundred others on the periodic table of the elements, the International Union of Pure and Applied ...

David Hinde receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In an event likely never to be repeated, four new superheavy elements were last week simultaneously added to the periodic table. To ...