Nihonium-286 lasts a relatively stately 9.5 seconds, but there is still no time to waste. Consequently, we know very little about how the most recent discoveries interact with other elements.

The name nihonium stems from the fact that element 113 was discovered in Japan, and Nihon is one way to say the country's name in Japanese. Eugene Hoshiko/AP ...

To find answers, the two neighbors, elements 113, nihonium, and 115, moscovium, needed to be tested as well. While first hints at the chemistry of nihonium were reported, ...

Meet nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts) and oganesson (Og), the newest elements on the periodic table to receive names. But don’t get too attached to the nomenclature for these ...

After a five month public review, the chemical element Ununtrium with the atomic number of 113 will be re-named “nihonium” due to the Japanese team that managed to create it in the laboratory.

Nihonium decays sequentially to dubnium-262 through four α-decays, which in turn further breaks down into two smaller fragments. In 2005 the RIKEN team managed to identify the remains of another ...

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 ...

With nihonium soon to occupy a spot on the periodic table, Japan is basking in the light of scientific fame. From PRI's The World ©2016 PRI. Support for GBH is provided by: Become a GBH sponsor.

Nihonium was inspired by the Japanese word for Japan, Oganesson was named for Russian scientist Yuri Oganessian and Moscovium and Tennessine, which were inspired by a city and a state, respectively.

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 ...