Scientists Have Discovered the Pathway to Element 120—the Holy Grail of Chemistry

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by ...
Science Daily

Ancient stars made extraordinarily heavy elements

How heavy can an element be? An international team of researchers has found that ancient stars were capable of producing elements with atomic masses greater than 260, heavier than any element on the ...
Live Science

Scientists just got 1 step closer to creating a 'superheavy' element that is so big, it will add a new row to the periodic table

The two most promising potential element candidates are element 119, tentatively named ununennium, and element 120, aka unbinilium. These elements are so massive that they do not fit in any of the ...
CNN

How the first Black woman to help discover an element ‘claimed a seat at the periodic table’

Editor’s Note: This story is part of CNN’s coverage of Black History Month and its ongoing commitment to honoring unsung heroes. While other seventh graders hung ’90s pop band and movie posters on ...
KSL

How the 1st Black woman to help discover an element 'claimed a seat at the periodic table'

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