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No word on what 115, 117 and 118 might be called. With last week’s announcement, a total of 26 elements have been added to the periodic table since 1940. But Shaughnessy said her team isn’t done.

The periodic table contains a wide array of elements, numbered from one (hydrogen) to 118 (oganesson), with each number representing the number of protons stored within an atom's nucleus. Scientists ...

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The periodic table may soon gain a new element, physicists at Lund University in Sweden announced Tuesday. A team of Lund researchers is the second to successfully create atoms of element 115.

Element 115 might earn an official spot on the periodic table By Karen Kaplan Aug. 27, 2013 2:09 PM PT <i>This post has been corrected, as indicated below.</i> ...

Four new elements are about to be added to the periodic table: nihonium (Nh, element 113), moscovium (Mc, element 115), tennessine (Ts, element 117), and oganesson (Og, element 118). When you say ...