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.

Scientists say they've created a handful of atoms of the elusive element 115, which occupies a mysterious corner of the periodic table. The super-heavy element has yet to be officially named, but it ...

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 ...

Superweight atom If you struggle remembering more than a dozen elements on the periodic table, your task just got harder with the discovery of chemical element 115. An international team of ...

A new element may soon join the periodic table: an international team of researchers announced this week that they have confirmed the existence of Ununpentium, elusive element 115. Although the ...

Swedish researchers have conducted an experiment that confirms the existence of a new artificial element with an atomic number of 115 - temporarily named ununpentium. The new research, carried out by ...

Some exciting news out of the science world, where a team of Swedish researchers said Tuesday that they’ve successfully recreated a new element first—and fleetingly—produced in a Russian lab a decade ...

New evidence for the existence of a superheavy element has been found by Swedish scientists at the GSI research facility in Germany. The element, atomic number 115, is highly radioactive and only ...