After multiple attempts across the globe to create a new element, an international team of researchers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, or Berkeley Lab, discovered a technique that could lead to ...

Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...

Carolyn Krause presents Jim Roberto’s story about how element 117 named tennessine was discovered and what he thinks are the prospects of, and obstacles to, creating elements 119 and 120 and even ...

At the start of the new year, nuclear chemists Hiromitsu Haba and Kouji Morimoto slide precisely 119 Japanese yen into the collection box at their local shrine. They are seeking good fortune in their ...

There are many elements on the periodic table, but just because scientists know that they exist doesn't mean they've taken the time to study them all. Einsteinium was first discovered in the early ...