Kosuke Morita, the leader of the Riken team, smiles as he points to a board displaying the new atomic element 113 during a press conference in Wako, Saitama prefecture on December 31, 2015 The ...

Element 113, discovered by a RIKEN group led by Kosuke Morita, has become the first element on the periodic table found in Asia. Rewarding nearly a decade of painstaking work by Morita's group, a ...

Scientists from the Glenn T. Seaborg Institute and the Chemical Biology and Nuclear Science Division at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the Joint ...

A couple of months ago the periodic table of elements was declared complete, with four new elements officially recognized (as Digital Journal reported). These elements were coded 113, 115, 117 and 118 ...

It’s taken close to a decade of experimentation, but now, a team of Japanese researchers claims to have succeeded in creating element 113, a superheavy synthetic element thought to reside toward the ...

It’s official: Four new names have been added to the periodic table of elements. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry organization stated Wednesday that it had approved the name and ...

A Swiss research group has participated in the discovery of new chemical elements. The elements have the numbers 113 and 115 and were discovered by a combination of physical and chemical techniques in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese scientists behind the discovery of element 113, the first atomic element found in Asia - indeed, the ...

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The name will be open to public commentary before it is made official The Japanese scientists who discovered atomic element 113 dubbed it “nihonium” — “nihon” meaning Japan in Japanese — on Wednesday ...