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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ununoctium, as the new element is temporarily named, has no known use but inspired almost a decade-long pursuit by scientists on four continents. Controversy in the course of its discovery hobbled the ...

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 ...