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The chemical properties of two of the heaviest synthetic elements, moscovium and nihonium, have been established for the first time. Moscovium is now the heaviest element whose chemical properties we ...

The name will be open to public commentary before it is made official The Japanese scientists who discovered atomic element 113 dubbed it “nihonium” — “nihon” meaning Japan in Japanese — on Wednesday ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese scientists behind the discovery of element 113, the first atomic element found in Asia - indeed, the first found outside Europe or the United States - have dubbed it ...

Nihonium is a radioactive, synthetic element about which little is known. It is classified as a metal and is expected to be solid at room temperature. The element, No. 113 on the Periodic Table of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. After a five month public review, the chemical element Ununtrium ...

Riken institute group director Kosuke Morita points to the spot for the 113th element on a periodic table on June 9, 2016, the day after the proposal to name the element "nihonium" was announced, in ...

Confused by the empty boxes at the bottom-right corner of the periodic table, my friend and I bugged our high-school chemistry teacher until she produced a newer version from a back cabinet. There, ...

A team of Japanese scientists has proposed naming atomic element 113 nihonium — after "Nihon," meaning Japan — with giving it the symbol Nh. And while Kyushu University professor Kosuke Morita, who ...

It's time to update your copy of the periodic table. Four new elements discovered in recent years have now been named, pending final approval by the international group of scientists in charge of the ...

The Japanese scientists who discovered atomic element 113 dubbed it “nihonium” — “nihon” meaning Japan in Japanese — on Wednesday evening, the Japan Times reports. Led by Kyushu University professor ...

An entry on the periodic table of the elements filled in and autographed by physics professors Joe Hamilton and A. V. Ramayya is displayed at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Their research ...