The heaviest recognized chemical element with the atomic number 112 was discovered at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and -- since February 19, 2010, -- officially carries the name ...

To celebrate National Chemistry Week, which runs from Oct. 20-26, we asked a bunch of scientists, with help from the American Chemical Society, what their favorite periodic element is, and why. A ...

This week, we meet the element lawrencium, which has the atomic symbol, Lr, and the chemical number, 103. It was named in honour of nuclear physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, who worked at the University ...

The periodic table of elements has four new entries, and one of them bears the name of the Volunteer State. Element 117 was discovered in 2010 by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), a ...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Joint Working Party has announced the official names and symbols of the chemical elements formerly known as 113, 115, 117 and 118. The proposed ...

This week's element is ununtrium, which has the temporary atomic symbol, Uut, and the atmonic number, 113. This element was recently discovered by two groups; one is a Russian-American collaboration, ...

There are lots of different substances but only just over a hundred elements. An element is a substance that is made up of only one kind of atom. The atoms in a particular element are the same as each ...

The chemical symbol for oxygen is O. Makes sense. Calcium gets repped by a Ca. Sounds good. Hydrogen? H. Cobalt? Co. Lithium? Li. With you so far. Lead? Pb. There are actually a few things that help ...

This release is available in German. IUPAC accepted the name proposed by the international discovering team around Sigurd Hofmann at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum. The team had suggested "Cp" as the ...