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So the periodic table has expanded again with the addition late last year of four new superheavy elements, bringing the known total up to 118. But the hunt for new elements started with efforts to ...

The periodic table captures a subtle pattern that runs through the chemical elements, the fundamental building blocks of everything around us: from the aluminium in bike frames to the xenon gas in ...

The discovery of a number of trans-uranium elements – elements heavier and with an atomic number greater than that of uranium (92), the heaviest naturally stable element – has been contested with ...