Chemists meet in Ottawa to vote on 'darmstadtium'. You have full access to this article via your institution. Chemical element 110, which was discovered in 1994, will finally get a name tomorrow. A ...

The periodic table of elements just got a bit heftier today (Nov. 4), as the names of three new elements were approved by the General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

At the 42nd General Assembly in Ottawa, Canada, the IUPAC Council officially approved the name for element of atomic number 110, to be known as darmstadtium, with symbol Ds. At the 42nd General ...

Elements that do not exist in nature—that have been created in a laboratory—are unstable. After hours or days of one element bombarding another with enough energy for both to fuse, the resulting new ...

The Heavy Ion Research Laboratory at Darmstadt, Germany has a thing for elements. It started off with bohrium in 1981. Meitnerium came in next in 1982, followed by hassium in 1984, roentgenium in 1994 ...

In the past few years, nuclear physicists have created elements 110, 111, 112, 114 and 116. But Element 115 has proved to be elusive so far. Photo: iStockphoto New Delhi: The existence of a previously ...

This article was updated Friday 11/4 at 11:00 p.m. EDT. The periodic table of elements just got a bit heftier today (Nov. 4), as the names of three new elements were approved by the General Assembly ...