The new season of Ancient Aliens kicked off May 31 on History, and Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is back in fine form, exploring theories that involve the natural world on earth and potential alien DNA strains ...

A team of Russian and American researchers has created two new artificial elements, Nos. 113 and 115, at the upper extreme of the periodic table. They have produced only four atoms of each of the new ...

Though led by physicists at Lund, the team that made the discovery was international, a statement from the university says. The experiment that led to the super-heavy, element’s discovery was ...

It isn’t carbon, it isn’t nickel, it sure as heck ain’t gold — it doesn’t even have a formal name. But never mind that. The newly created superheavy element, announced today in a paper published in ...

Kids have to memorize four new elements, now that the powers that be in the world of chemistry have expanded the periodic table. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has accepted the ...

Four new chemical elements have official names and symbols, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry recently announced. After a five-month review, IUPAC chemists have approved the names ...