It’s now time to say hello, officially, to the four new additions to the Periodic Table of Elements. This week, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) approved the names ...

The periodic table is getting a little bigger after scientists added the names of four new elements, completing the seventh row of the chart.

The new superheavy, radioactive elements were added to the periodic table last year but given temporary and unremarkable names: ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctoium.

The new names were announced Wednesday (June 8) by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the organization that standardizes chemical element names. The endings of each of ...

Four elements officially recognized in December, highlighted in yellow, now have names that honor Japan, Moscow, Tennessee and physicist Yuri Oganessian.

But a new element gets its own box on the periodic table—the most iconic real estate in science, and something that will hang in every science classroom in the world. Forever.

Proposed names for new periodic table elements announced by IUPAC Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 are likely to become nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson ...

Flerovium and livermorium. Prime names for really ugly babies -- or, equivalently, new elements on the periodic table. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry opted for the latter ...

Two of the heaviest elements on the periodic table were officially named on Thursday (May 31).