A new super-heavy element, temporarily called 117, may soon be making its way into the periodic table after being successfully created in a laboratory setting. Made up of 117 protons, the element ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of researchers from Lund University is conducting an experiment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that may lead ...

Have we reached the end of the line of discoverable elements? Scientists have been slowly extending the periodic table one element at a time, pushing to higher and higher masses, and have discovered ...