Ununoctium, more commonly known as element 118, has had a tumultuous life. In 1999 a group at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL) announced that by smashing krypton ions (86 36 Kr) into a lead (208 ...

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 ...

What do you get when you mix a frizzy-haired, grandfatherly chemist with his younger, cackling, explosion-loving sidekick? The Periodic Table of Videos! Put together by a team at the University of ...

Chemistry students will now have to work just a little harder. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced names for four new elements Wednesday. Given the atomic numbers 113, 115, ...

Kids have to memorize four new elements, now that the powers that be in the world of chemistry have expanded the periodic table. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has accepted the ...