New element 117, ununseptium, was created by bombarding berkelium, above. Atoms of a new super-heavy element — the as-yet-unnamed element 117 — have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, ...

“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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists are bringing a new element to the table. The yet to be named superheavy element temporarily referred to as Element 117 is the latest addition to the Periodic Table ...

A new super-heavy element, temporarily called 117, may soon be making its way into the periodic table after being successfully created in a laboratory setting. Made up of 117 protons, the element ...

A heavy element has been confirmed by experiments with a particle collider in Europe and will take its rightful place as Element 117 in the periodic table, physicists say. At a collider in Germany, ...

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 ...

A collaboration of Russian and US physicists has finally created element 117 - a superheavy element made of atoms containing 117 protons that is roughly 40% heavier than lead. The achievement fills in ...

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 ...