Editor’s Note: Additional material was added to this story at 5 p.m. on April 6, 2010. Physicists have reported synthesizing element 117, the latest achievement in their quest to create “superheavy” ...

Washington, Dec 1 (PTI) The superheavy element 117 has been officially named “tennessine” – about six years after its discovery was first reported. The International Union of Pure and Applied ...

Element Z=117 has been acknowledged this week by a team of scientists, these scientists having successfully created several atoms of said element in a lab. This lovely piece of creation will – once it ...

Atoms of a new super-heavy element — the as-yet-unnamed element 117 — have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, moving it closer to being officially recognized as part of the standard ...

The official Periodic Table of the Elements is one step closer to adding element 117 to its ranks. That's thanks to an international team of scientists that was able to successfully create several ...

“Ununseptium” or the superheavy element Z = 117 could finally be ready to be added to the periodic table. An international collaboration has produced four atoms of the elusive element, which was first ...

Element 117, first discovered by Lawrence Livermore scientists and international collaborators in 2010, is one step closer to being named. The existence of element 117 and its decay chain to elements ...

Scientists report they have created the especially shifty superheavy element 117, a milestone for nuclear chemistry that now completes the seventh row of the periodic table. The discovery, which will ...

LIVERMORE, Calif., May 2 (UPI) -- Element 117 -- a superheavy element discovered in 2010 by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California -- is still just a number, not ...

Element 117 looks set to claim the highest slot yet on the periodic table, thanks to an experiment in Germany that has independently confirmed its existence. In the process, the team also glimpsed a ...

Atoms of a new super-heavy element the as-yet-unnamed element 117 have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, moving it closer to being officially recognized as part of the standard ...