Have we reached the end of the line of discoverable elements? Scientists have been slowly extending the periodic table one element at a time, pushing to higher and higher masses, and have ...

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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.

The periodic table of the elements. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons user Sandbh, under a c.c.a.-s.a.-4.0 international license.

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.

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 ...

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> ...

It seems as if the makeup of the periodic table would be as rudimentary as apples falling down, not up. There’s evidence for elements like oxygen, iron, and silicon all around.