Forget earth, wind, water and fire – there are four new elements in town. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has announced that recently discovered elements 113, 115, 117 ...

Four new elements now have names. In December, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially recognized the discovery of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118, filling out the seventh row ...

The names of elements in the periodic table—like lithium or beryllium—may not mean much to you today, but they are seared in your memory. Naming an element, then, is creating history. On Dec. 30, ...

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